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TIL Farmers feed cows expired candy bars and sprinkles as an energy source, and have been doing is for years

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EX7p TIL: Early in colonization, “Disposable Ships” were a type of craft built for a single voyage, after which they would be disassembled, the wood reused to build actual ships. Some disposables were the largest ships ever built.
PYANE TIL that Babe Ruth was the first human to receive chemotherapy.
oXPK TIL that Adam Savage and Jamie Hyneman, the hosts for Mythbusters, never liked each other.
p8WaO TIL Arsenic used to be so undetectable and popular a poison that it was nicknamed the "inheritance powder"
Y7BvP TIL Slow Loris’ have a venomous bite that causes necrosis (flesh rotting)