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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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16r8W TIL the only resident ambassador in Liechtenstein is a knight of the Sovereign Military Order of Malta.
MkZ0 TIL that Edgar Allen Poe’s death is still a mystery and that a masked man puts roses and cognac on his grave once a year!
NXm5b TIL that in 2004, a 16 year old Iranian girl named Atefeh Sahaaleh was hanged for "adultery" after being assaulted multiple times
LQXyp TIL about Grey Owl. A famous indigenous Canadian conservationist during the 1930s. When he died, it was revealed that he wasn't actually First Nations at all - instead he was a British immigrant that was putting on an act.
yVYOX TIL Bill Cosby, Gene Hackman, Eartha Kitt, Burt Lancaster, Steve McQueen, and Barbra Streisand were some of the names on Nixon's "Enemies List"