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TIL : Cows have 'best friends' and get stressed when seperated

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ADyad TIL 110 years ago Dr Charles Campbell constructed 30 feet high bat roost to fight malaria. Bats that lived in the roost ate the mosquitoes and Mitchell's lake municipality was malaria-free in 4 years.
9wRX TIL Mr. Bubble, bubble bath, is suspected to have caused a generation of women to have a life-long predisposition to UTI’s.
gW7A TIL That Mary Jane was killed by Spiderman’s radioactive semen.
6EAQm TIL Crocodiles are the ultimate survivors. Having arisen some 200 million years ago, they have outlived the dinosaurs by some 65 million years. Even humans, the most fearsome predators ever to stalk the Earth, have failed to force into extinction any of the 23 species of crocodilians.
rNGKW TIL about Preston Tucker, an idealistic automobile maker who vowed to build the world's greatest and safest car in 1946. Once production began, Ford, GM, and Chrysler had his company shut down and his manufacturing plant seized by the US government. Only fifty cars were made.