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TIL Cows have best friends. Studies have shown that cows become stressed when separated from their best friends. This finding highlights the social nature of cows and their ability to form close bonds with one another.

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J1N8Q TIL the "Women in Refrigerators" trope, which refers to female characters in fiction being killed or seriously harmed to serve as plot devices to motivate male characters, is particularly prevalent in the MCU
ANDXx TIL the movie Saw (2004) was shot in 18 days with one set, a budget of just over a million dollars, and grossed more than $100 million at the box office.
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a0yZ TIL that despite the lyric he wrote in the song Bicycle Race [“I don’t like Star Wars”], Freddie Mercury actually liked Star Wars a lot.