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Stories of Kobe reared on classical music, beer, and massages, while allowed, are largely myths. But, the Hyogo government keeps the 12 most ideal bulls in a special facility, using their semen to inseminate all cows. Every ounce of Kobe beef eaten worldwide was fathered by one of these dozen perfect marbling specimens.

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OoYM6 TIL that using sign language, a caretaker communicated female chimp that her own baby died, to which the female chimp signed back "CRY" "touching her cheek and drawing her finger down the path a tear would make on a human" (chimps can't shed tears)
KOd0G TIL that there is an Island off of Scotland where wallabies have happily inhabited and adapted to the climate there since the 1940s
b9LlE TIL the American voice of Solid Snake also co-wrote the movies X-MEN, X2 and WATCHMEN.
9wrYQ TIL that Ryan Gosling was raised Mormon
kXee TIL of the “dementor wasp,” called Ampulex dementor, which injects a toxin into cockroaches that leave them alive but without a will of their own, yet still mobile enough that they can run right into the wasp’s nest to be conveniently devoured