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

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6O77 TIL that a man served 31 years in jail for a crime he did not commit, and the state compensated him only $75.
4XReg TIL that the last survivor of the Crimean War, which ended in 1856, died in 2004 at the age of 160. She was a female tortoise named Timothy who was a mascot for several British naval vessels during the war.
YNAB TIL two time Medal of Honor recipient Major General Smedley Butler wrote: “I spent most of my time as a high class muscle man for Big Business, for Wall Street and the bankers. In short, I was a racketeer, a gangster for capitalism.”
pY16e TIL Eyestalk ablation is a practice in prawn and shrimp aquaculture where one or both eyestalks of female prawns are removed or destroyed to stimulate faster reproduction
R5xw TIL on the Indonesian island Tana Toraja, if a baby dies before he starts teething, the family cuts a hole in a tree and places the dead child inside. The tree regrows around the baby and absorbs it.