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TIL Touching stainless steel can remove the smell of onions from your fingers.

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mxrwx TIL that under Chinese occupation (which killed 1.2 million people), the Tibetan language is banned in Tibet
yQvZw TIL Donkeys are used to fend off coyotes and other predators, are very smart, and typically become the alpha in a team of horses. They have a great sense of fight or flight and other horses will gauge their reaction by watching the donkey’s behavior.
NXvB8 TIL that 11 basketballs, which is equal to 144 baseballs, can come from 1 cow hide and that beef is, in actuality, the #1 food source for Protein, Vitamin B12, and Zinc.
0wjX5 TIL that in 1506 Louis II of Hungary was born prematurely and doctors kept him alive by slaying animals and wrapping him in their warm carcasses as a primitive incubator
dDQ8 TIL Ziggy Marley sang the theme song for the kids show “Arthur”