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TIL that cows “moo” in different accents, depending on where they live.

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e0BM6 TIL Tippi Hedren was traumatized while filming Hitchcock’s The Birds. He told her mechanical birds were to be used during the famous bedroom scene. Instead she endured 5 days of prop men flinging dozens of live gulls, ravens and crows at her. One of the birds gouged her cheek and just missed her eye
lonBN TIL Lt. Colonel Dale Zelko, who's F117A was shot down in the NATO bombing of Yugoslavia, is now friends with and runs a bakery with the Serb who shot him down: Colonel Zoltán Dani.
v1xyx TIL Jason Mraz once was a pickle boy at the Minnesota Renaissance Festival, where he would offer to trade you his dill for a bill.
7W5P TIL there is a house in Warsaw that is 152 centimeters (60 in.) wide, placed in the exact space between two buildings.
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