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TIL cows with personal names like Betsy give 5% more milk than cows with no name or impersonal names like “cow 12345”

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4kE86 TIL The Ventures, a bunch of young kids in Tacoma, recorded Walk, Don't Run as an instrumental in 1960. A friend covered drums for them. He was offered $25 or 25% of the royalties. It sold millions of copies, helping create other guitar groups, and is in the Grammy Hall of Fame. He took the $25.
1aKm4 TIL Elton John once bought a tram while on a 3-day cocaine binge. He had the vehicle shipped from Australia, and two Chinook helicopters were needed to deliver it to his house.
Z8DBR TIL guards of the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier wear specially manufactured Oakley sunglasses to protect from the glare of the marble, and are the only military personnel to wear sunglasses as part of their official uniform.
xrG0 TIL that a Russian woman in Chernobyl is making YouTube videos while injecting herself with radiation and eating apples from the Exclusion Zone. She also picks up pieces of the radioactive reactor core.
Me8KW TIL that elephants are naturally afraid of bees and that farmers in Africa and India are using beehive fences as a safe and humane way to keep the elephants away, while at the same time pollinating their crops.