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TIL that bully sticks, a popular, healthy and safe chew for dogs, are literally dried bull penises.

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4X0Ro TIL while researching Rube Goldberg machines, that there was a comic strip called "Boob McNutt" made by Rube Goldberg himself, which ran from 1918 to 1934.
wLKN1 TIL Roald Dahl, author of "Charlie and the Chocolate Factory" and "James and the Giant Peach", was also British spy known for gaining intelligence through sex.
oRKEA TIL that donated organs are constantly attacked by the recipient’s immune system, which can age them faster, and that immunosuppressive drugs are needed to avoid rejection and infection.
J1JKQ TIL that at the time of the French Revolution the majority of people in France did not speak French. It is estimated that at the time of the French Revolution in 1789, only half of the population of France could speak French, and as late as 1871 only a quarter spoke French as their native language.
gMZbL TIL Mark Twain was incredibly well traveled and wrote "Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness, and many of our people need it sorely on these accounts. Broad, wholesome, charitable views of men and things cannot be acquired by vegetating in one little corner of the earth..."