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TIL the US Department of Agriculture published guidance on how to dispose of horses with explosives [PDF]

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l5rr TIL there is a copy of The Mona Lisa that is believed to have been created at the same time as da Vinci’s. Known as the Prado Mona Lisa, it is far better preserved and gives a better understanding of how the original might have appeared.
R5Zr4 TIL that when the Luftwaffe were struggling against the Royal Air Force in WW2, Reichsmarschall Göring asked young flying ace Adolf Galland what was needed to defeat the British pilots. Galland said, "a squadron of Spitfires."
yVjWa TIL the first scientific article on the greenhouse effect was published back in 1856, 165 years ago! The article was written by a female scientist - Eunice Newton Foote
NbEM TIL That World Fairs are still happening and the next one will be in 2015 at Milan
VBVxD TIL that due to our common primate ancestor, orangutans also have ABO blood types like humans