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TIL Although reapectful of eachother The Mythbusters (Adam Savage and Jamie Hyneman) aren't friends and don't get along.

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5VmRn TIL: A mule always has a donkey father and a horse mother. An offspring of a horse father and a donkey mother is called a hinny.
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