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TIL that Bill Cosby had a really hard opinion on racism

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ZYMR TIL Stress doesn’t cause stomach ulcers, a bacterium does. It took many years for an entrenched medical profession to accept it, but two Australian scientists won the Nobel Prize for this discovery, for Physiology or Medicine, in 2005.
ZgPv TIL in falconry that birds reared from hatchlings by a human become sexually imprinted on that human. To breed, the human lets the male bird copulate with his head while he is wearing a special hat with pockets on to catch the male bird’s semen.
VMWDp Today I learned that there’s an Animal Crossing animated film released in 2006 only in Japan
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DQyg TIL that during WW2, American and Australian troops developed a hybrid version of their respective types of football. To make the game fair to both sides, players were awarded a mark after either a caught kick or a thrown pass. The game was known as Austus.