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TIL In the United States cows can be given growth hormones but chickens can not.

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a8dgo TIL the Hip Hop group 95 South released a song called "Whoot, There It Is" a month before Tag Team released their song "Whoomp! There It Is"
Ap4l TIL In the 1996 Paralympics in Atlanta, 11 athletes were sent home after cheating their way into favorable classes. At the Sydney games in 2000, the Spanish mentally handicapped basketball team won the gold medal. It later turned out that 10 players were completely healthy
ebob TIL that some Koreans are trying to rename their country back to “Corea”. They believe that Japan changed the spelling to “Korea” so Japanese athletes would march first at the 1908 Olympics.
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