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TIL that Equine (mare, horse) milk has potential for use in infant formula due to its similar composition to Human Milk

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lyLa TIL: In 2014, the Spanish Marijuana Seed store Alchimia, has contributed around 21,500 seeds, to ensure the survival of cannabis for use by future generations.
KJY9 TIL that German journalists have a word, “widow shaking” for the practice of aggressively getting sob story material from relatives of disaster or crime victims.
kOv5g TIL about the worst space related disaster in history. In 1994 China launched an untested rocket which immediately crashed into a nearby village, destroying it--killing hundreds. Officially only 6 died.
veLr TIL letters sent to London Newspapers by Jack The Ripper had a sample of saliva from their stamps tested in 2006. The results seemed to point to the sender of the letters being a woman.
XdyP TIL cranberries don’t grow in bogs. The fields are flooded during picking to make mass harvesting more efficient as the berries float above their vines.