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TIL that Pink Floyd’s 1977 album “Animals” was loosely based off of George Orwell’s “Animal Farm” but rather than satirizing communism, the album blasts capitalism

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PkBe TIL: Korean scientists cloned puppies who glow red under UV light
6lRW TIL that 5 scientists observed 60,000 episodes combined of 73 cows lying down to determine that: (1) the longer the cow has been lying down, the more likely the cow will soon stand up, and (2) once the cow stands up you cannot easily predict how soon that cow will lie down again.
YJW7 TIL that at the 1945 Potsdam Conference, Churchill, Truman & Stalin couldn’t agree on who should enter the door to the meeting room first. After much debate, they settled on an agreeable plan: They entered the room at precisely the same time using 3 separate doors
y1Zp TIL that many records in track and field including the long jump and high jump are unlikely to be broken due to modern athletes gravitating towards higher money sports such as sprinting or football.
4w8g TIL that London has so many trees that it can be classified as a forest