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TIL Researchers found that cows produced 3 percent more milk when they were played slow music, like Beethoven’s ‘Pastoral Symphony as opposed to more upbeat tunes.

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78VZX TIL a lactating Virgin Mary supposedly reanimated and shot her milk across a room and into a man's mouth or eyes. There are multiple holy paintings of that "miracle."
J1mj4 TIL with his dad totally against it, 19-yr-old Fabio Lanzoni moved to the US & within 48 hrs of arriving he walked into the Ford modeling agency without an appointment & walked out with a $150K contract. The next day he was hired for the launch of Gap Inc. Then began to pose for 15 book covers a day
loLYr TIL that Republic of China have a legislative election in 1948, where 200 million voters vote for their legislators in 47 provinces, municipalities, 18 Mongolian Leagues, Tibetan area, oversea Chinese region . Making China the largest democracy at the time.
woXNY TIL Egon Hanfstaengl, whose parents had been close acquaintances with Hitler in the 1920s, became a sergeant in the U.S. Army during World War II
6lyX TIL Although considered by many to be taboo when cousins get married, the risk of them having offspring with genetic defects is not significantly higher than two random strangers having kids.