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TIL that cows get most of their proteins by digesting bacteria from their rumen that ended up in their stomach

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jbBQ TIL: In 1959, a rhinoceros named Cacareco was elected to city council in Sao Paolo. Not only did she win, but she did so by a landslide
7rpAb TIL that Milky Way obstructs our view of around 20% of the extragalactic sky at visible wavelengths. That area is called the Zone of Avoidance and it is the reason humans do not have a complete picture of the extragalactic sky yet.
6Edl TIL the White House has a Flickr account and they post behind the scenes photos all the time
Q6Yd TIL that after the assassination of John F. Kennedy in 1963, Martin Luther King Jr. said to his wife, “This is what is going to happen to me also. I keep telling you, this is a sick society.”
4k0B6 TIL that in 2013, LG had an event in Seoul, where they would tie free phone coupons onto balloons and release them into the air. Participants ended up bringing BB guns and pointed staffs to try and get the balloons down. 20 people were injured because of this event.