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TIL Horses can have pet goats. They love their goats so much that they will mourn if they are separated.

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loB0V TIL that after Beethoven went deaf, he found he could affix a metal rod to his piano and bite down on it while he played, enabling him to hear perfectly through vibrations in his jawbone. The process is called bone conduction.
ADJ4n TIL Bizarrely, the US has a Prohibition Party whose mascot is the dromedary and whose chairman is named Phil Collins
yVWkM TIL the worst drunk driving accident happened on May 14th, 1988 with 24 kids and 3 adults killed in a bus crash in Carrollton, KY.
GYj5N TIL Kurt Knispel (served Nazi Germany during WW2), the highest scoring tank ace of WW2 with 168 confirmed tank kills was never awarded the coveted Knight's Cross because he assaulted higher officers for mistreating POWs and let others take credit for his kills among other things.
x6rgB TIL Jerald terHorst was Gerald Ford's press secretary for only month. He resigned after Ford granted Nixon a pardon, which he found especially unconscionable in light of Ford's refusal to pardon draft dodgers during the Vietnam War