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

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KOM9B TIL After Michael Jackson bought the publishing rights to the Beatles catalog, he also acquired all of the rights to Little Richard's publishing. As soon as Michael found that out, he gave Little Richard all of his publishing rights back, compensating him of tens of millions of dollars.
4kDYg TIL birds have pneumatic bones. This means that, even if they have a blocked windpipe, if they also have an exposed broken bone, they can use that bone to gather oxygen from the air (a bone snorkel) and not suffocate!
Wke8L TIL It is estimated there are more than 10^31 bacteriophages on the planet, more than every other organism on Earth, including bacteria, combined.
d8BK TIL helium-3, an isotope commonly found in space (but not on Earth) could solve clean energy.
4YNX TIL that South Park: Bigger, Longer & Uncut was originally rated NC-17, and every time the creators sent it to MPAA for a re-rating, they edited in more vulgar scenes. Jack Valenti, president of the MPAA, said that he regretted not rating it NC-17.