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

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9Y5RM TIL Adam Rainer was the only person to ever have both dwarfism and gigantism. At age 18 he measured (4ft 6in) and reached a height of (7ft 8in) by age 51.
Ool0g TIL there is a building in Dubai called the Torch that caught fire three times between 2015 and 2019.
l7DyK TIL that in 1972, a military bagpipe version of Amazing Grace based on an arrangement by Judy Collins spent 5 weeks at number 1 in the UK, and resulted in the piper being chastised for demeaning the bagpipes
D1VPr TIL that you need to climb 2 hours on a 800 meters (0.5 miles) steel ladder to get to the clifftop village of Atule'er in Southern China. Recently 72 families were relocated to a town under the cliff, but 30 households intend to stay in their clifftop homes, partly due to a newfound tourist economy.
P4Eg TIL that in 1269, the election of the Pope took so long (3 years) that the city where the conclave was held, Viterbo, refused to send in anything except bread and water. When even this failed to elect a Pope, villagers removed the roof of the palace hosting the cardinals to speed up the election.