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TIL that goats, like us, have regional accents, and goats from different regions can have trouble understanding each other.

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Gjn1 TIL: Irene Triplett, an 86-year-old daughter of a Civil War veteran, still collects her father’s pension of $73.13 a month. That war ended in 1865.
kOvQ4 Today I learned that Rick Riordan hated the Percy Jackson movies so much, he wrote a letter warning teachers not to show them in class
d8PQB TIL about the case of Carl Tanzler, a Florida man who dug up the body of the “love of his life” Elena "Helen" Milagro de Hoyos, essentially taxidermied her, and then lived with her corpse in his home for 7 years.
l7LEG TIL Alberta King, the mother of Martin Luther King Jr., was murdered six years after his assassination (1974). She was shot and killed while playing the organ in Ebenezer Baptist Church, where her husband and son both preached.
PBan TIL the most obese state in 1995 (Mississippi) was thinner than the thinnest state in 2016 (Colorado).