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TIL that Triple Crown winner American Pharoah has sex 3 times every day and his owners charge a $200,000 fee per impregnation, generating about $30,000,000 a year annually.

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mxOrO TIL about Snuggles who is a mouse that ate heroin left on a table. Overdosing on the heroin, Snuggles the mouse was unresponsive and barely breathing when brought into an overdose prevention site in Vancouver B.C. Volunteers at the site administered Narcan and was able to save Snuggles's life.
oBNnL TIL An early purchaser of the Zamboni was worried about profits because people were watching the machine resurface the ice instead of going to the concession stand.
GY7v4 TIL that 60% of all selfie related deaths between 2014 and 2016 happened in India.
4LAo TIL that pencils are yellow because, in the 1890’s, the world’s best pencil graphite came from China. In China, the color yellow is associated with royalty, so American pencil manufacturers started painting their pencils yellow to indicate they contained high-quality Chinese graphite.
9YelX TIL that hamburgers are called hamburgers because they were invented in Hamburg. And not because they are burgers made out of ham, despite obviously being beef, like I originally thought.