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TIL the most dangerous animal in australia is... horses! 7.7 deaths a year. Followed by cows then dogs

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5YXdD TIL that "lactose-free milk" is just milk with an added enzyme that helps lactose-intolerant people digest it.
wg08 TIL that Converse Chuck Taylors have fuzz on the soles so that they can be classified as slippers, which are subject to much lower U.S. import tariffs than sneakers.
kP1e TIL Jews arrived in India 2500 years ago and unlike many parts of the world, Jews have historically lived in India without any instances of antisemitism from the local majority populace.
OGnye TIL that Dorothy's line to the Scarecrow 'I think I'll miss you most of all' is a holdover from the original script where she and the farmhand played the same actor had a romance
9J4X TIL New York launched an “America Works” style workfare program in 1995 known as the Work Experience Program (WEP). The result was that thousands of students were forced out of school, and thousands of union workers were replaced by WEP workers doing the same jobs for a fraction of the pay.