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TIL cows don't have upper front teeth, instead they have dental padding, which helps them hold on to more gras while grazing

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oBPPA TIL an astronomer was frightened by the jumping spiders on her ceiling, but after she discovered that they were capable of seeing the moon, she said “They can see the moon just like me! I can't kill them now that I know that.”
XKpr TIL of The 1916 Umatilla Petticoat Rebellion, a stealth write-in campaign by newly enfranchised women voters that elected female candidates to every open seat of an Oregon town government, with the mayor losing office to his wife.
5VoJn TIL that during the Maxi Trial, the largest trial against the Mafia in history, a mobster confessed to Tommaso Buscetta, an informant, that he had killed two of Buscetta's sons. After the trial, Buscetta embraced him and said: "I forgive you because I know what it means to be in Cosa Nostra"
5VPMR TIL that 76 federal agencies that are NOT law enforcement ( i.e. IRS, EPA, SSA) have armed agents with authority to use deadly force.
gDxX TIL college textbook prices have risen 1,041% since 1977 - more than three times inflation as a whole