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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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JmwQ TIL at least one dead body is washed ashore somewhere along the River Thames in London every week.
R7Ek8 TIL: That while the kilogram is defined in terms of three fundamental physical constants, the imperial equivalent, the pound is legally defined as exactly 0.45359237 kilograms
kJWJ1 TIL in 1900, an unknown boy was hired as coswain by the Dutch team for the Olympic rowing event. The team received a gold medal
Y7DZP TIL that the band Phish hosted 80,000 people, the largest on earth to usher in the new millennium, for New Years 2000 at the Big Cypress Seminole Indian Reservation in Florida
vPjL8 TIL that the BBC had no archival policy until 1978, and many of its old broadcasts were only aired live. A number of BBC broadcasts are lost, including a show featuring a then-unknown Bob Dylan; 97 episodes of Dr. Who; and most of its coverage of the moon landing.