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TIL cows have best friends, and get stressed when separated.

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9YW0D TIL that during World War I, a series of wolf attacks made Russian and German soldiers team up to fight wolves. After seeing wolves attack wounded soldiers and children, the commanders on both sides signed a temporary armistice, and killed hundreds of wolves. They then resumed fighting each other.
9wWQ7 TIL South Korea has just pulled even with Japan in the Human Development Index. Seeing improvement from 1970 when it was ranked below North Korea
78DkP TIL the second most spoken first language in Brazil is German (various dialects)
Eojo TIL Susan G. Komen for the Cure only spends 20.9% of its funds on actual research for the cure and the CEOs salary is 459k
p7xQ TIL in 525 BC, in the battle of Pelusium the Persians brought cats with them when attacking Egypt, some of them using the cats as shields. Knowing that its forbidden to harm a cat in Egypt. The Egyptions afraid of hurting the cats surrendered to the Persians