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TIL: Putting duct tape on a horses nose calms them down to help you shoe them.

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N7nMP TIL the Kaaba ???? in the Great Mosque of Mecca is black because it's covered with a giant silk shroud called the kiswah. It's made with 670 kgs of black silk, embroidered with 15 kg of gold thread, and costs $4.5 million to make. It's also replaced every year by the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.
o1Y TIL That an illiterate clown was elected to Brazilian congress in 2010.
YY1P TIL Fish can live and flourish in rice paddies. Reducing pesticide and fertiliser usage.
0xoy TIL Judd Apatow once said, “Basically, my stuff is just John Hughes films only with four-letter words. Nobody made me laugh harder than John Hughes.”
r8Gx TIL the box-office mega-flop “Battlefield Earth” was co-produced by John Travolta (a Scientologist and the film’s villain) and based on an L. Ron Hubbard book. Its production company was convicted of fraud and went bankrupt.