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TIL Mongolian shepherds use female golden eagles to defend against wolves.

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XEx08 TIL A 2013 study published in the Journal of Addiction Medicine revealed that 69% of doctors reported that they abused prescription medicine “to relieve stress & physical or emotional pain." Rates of addiction are highest within the specialties of anesthesiology, emergency medicine, and psychiatry.
ePN5 TIL that Labor Day was created by President Grover Cleaveland in 1894, after 30 striking railroad employees were killed during the Pullman Strike
R5Mj1 TIL The King Ranch trim for Ford trucks and SUVs is named after a famous Texas rancher, Richard King, and the wavy icon on these trucks is thought to represent either diamondback rattlesnakes, longhorn bull horns, or the Santa Gertrudis Creek
N7ABN TIL the world's best selling spirit is "baijiu", a Chinese sorghum-based liquor.
vRgB TIL Bill Clinton has a brother, who was nicknamed “Headache” by the secret service, due to his knack for landing in trouble.