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TIL a horse cannot vomit

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nej1r TIL a year after star Brittany Murphy died of pneumonia her widower Simon Monjack died in the same house of the same illness.
e0pVn TIL for Aprils fools in 2014 Blizzard announced a game called "Blizzard Outcasts" which was played with a controller called the "Fight Stick". The "Fight Stick" had 32 buttons, an in-built credit card reader and an ergonomic design.
4XxLg TIL Dreamworks used to punish their animators who failed at their work on Prince of Egypt, by sending them to work on Shrek. Appaerently the punishment even had a nickname - to be "Shreked."
nLYW TIL the killer whales of Eden were a group of Orcas known for their co-operation with human hunters of other whale species. The killer whales would find target whales, shepherd them into Twofold Bay, and then alert the whalers to their presence and often help to kill the whales.
R77d4 TIL that on September 16, 1920, a bomb exploded on Wall Street outside the NYSE building, killing 33 people and injuring more than 400. The perpetrators were never found.