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TIL cows in the U.S. are repeatedly impregnated (often by artificial insemination) so they can make milk nearly year-round.

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Z8MVo TIL that poisonous snakes actually exist.
VZpp TIL that comet Shoemaker-Levy 9 collided with Jupiter in 1994, after being broken apart from Jupiter’s tidal gravity. One fragment struck the planet’s surface with the estimated energy of 6 million megatons of TNT (600 times the world’s nuclear arsenal) and created a dark spot over 12,000 km across.
kOnKW TIL that Bill W., the founder of Alcoholics Anonymous, was a proponent of LSD and believed that regular usage of LSD would be beneficial for many recovering alcoholics.
Wkd94 TIL April 17 is National Horny Day
5bZD TIL water tastes stale when left out overnight because it absorbs carbon dioxide from the air