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TIL in addition to cows and deer, there are prion-caused spongiform encephalopathies for minks, camels, ostriches, oryxes, nyalas, and cats

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kJdaE TIL 2100, 2200 and 2300 will NOT be a leap years, due to the fact that if a year is divisible by 100, but not 400, the year is skipped as a leap year, to counteract that a year is not actually 365.25 days long, but about 365.2422 instead, meaning the rule makes up for 3 days every 400 years.
VBOop TIL The United States once had a 36-year-old vice president back in 1857. John C. Breckinridge is still the only person under 40 to serve as president or vice president.
pl8G TIL that most New York City apartment buildings are six stories tall because the water reservoirs for the city provide just enough pressure to get water six stories up - above that you need a water tank on top of the building.
kOVLE TIL Austin St. John, the original Red Power Ranger, went on to become a Paramedic.
JYnEv TIL that Thor Heyerdahl, a Norwegian Ethnographer, sailed from Peru to Polynesia on an primitive balsa wood raft to prove that ancient trans-oceanic travel was possible. When experts called it a fluke, he made an Egyptian reed boat and sailed it from Morocco to Central America to prove them wrong.