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TIL cows are fed magnets that stay in their stomach for life to collect metal objects like nails or barbed wire that the cow will occasionally eat, thus preventing the objects from getting stuck in their intestines and causing “hardware disease”

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JPPV TIL China is building a car-free city from scratch for 80,000 residents - it “will use 48% less energy and 58% less water than a more conventional city of the same size; it will also produce 89% less landfill waste and generate 60% less carbon dioxide.”
Y7aQx TIL - That during Apartheid in South Africa you were forbidden to have relations with someone of another race. The Boers developed the "Pencil Test"; if a pencil would stay in your hair when pushed in you were declared as "black" and could only have relations with other "blacks".
VBky4 TIL about Don‘s Plum, the movie Leonardo Di Caprio fought against in court and won which has stopped its release to the big screen. If however you want to see it, you can mail the writer at freedonsplum@gmail.com and he’ll happily provide you with an URL to watch the movie with a very misogynist Leo
6bOw TIL The reason Harry Truman was selected to be the Vice President under Roosevelt was because when he ran the Senate “Truman Committee”, it found so much corruption and waste, he saved the government $10-15 billion. Several times the cost of the entire $2 billion Manhattan project.
wLKn7 TIL that the 1994 hit song "Macarena" is about a girl named Macarena who cheats on her boyfriend with two friends while he’s being drafted into the army