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TIL the average dairy cow in 2020 was roughly five times as productive as the average one in 1950.

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DOgj TIL some WWII POWs in Japan, would keep their morale up and defy guards by holding in their farts until they were made to bow to a portrait of Emperor Hirohito. At the lowest point of their bow they would let loose.
e0WR5 TIL the sitcom "Boy Meets World" in the first season kept having a new third boy character as a friend of Cory and Shawn, as the original idea was to have three boys. They kept trying new male friends but none lasted more than a episode before deciding to make Topanga the third friend.
a849y TIL that a linguistic's research led by Seymour (2003) shows that, on average, English-native learners take 2 more years to learn to read (decode) the same words than groups of learners in another country learning to read in their language, say, Finnish, which has an easier & more systematic system.
9DNr TIL Russian Railways president Vladimir Yakunin wants to build a bridge across the Bering Strait from Russia to Alaska. This would make possible an almost 13,000 mile road trip from New York to London.
eVNb TIL ‘McRib’ contains over 70 ingredients including a bleaching agent often used in foamed plastics. McRib’s “restructured meat technology” uses proteins extracted from a mixture of tripe, heart, and scalded stomach to bind pork trimmings into a rib-like food item.