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TIL 65% of the world drinks goat milk over cow milk.

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PmDG TIL that writing was likely only invented from scratch three times in history: in the Middle East, China, and Central America. All other alphabets and writing systems were either derived from or inspired by the the others, or were too incomplete to fully express the spoken language.
BgxZb TIL that when the code-breakers at Bletchley Park were short of cribs, they would ask the RAF to mine specific areas of the North Sea, so that they could look for the name of the area and the word “mine” in subsequent German naval reports. This was known as “Gardening”.
m1Z5R TIL the creator of the popular e-mail client Eudora named it after author Eudora Welty, for her short story "Why I Live at the P.O." If he had known that Eudora would become as popular as it did, he would not have presumed to name it after a (then) living author (she was pleased and amused)
X0a6k TIL The Jane's Addiction song "Jane Says", about Jane who had a heroin addiction and hoped to move to Spain after kicking her habit: Jane actually did exist, she did kick her habit, and she did move to Spain. However, she was not a sex worker as the song intimated.
D1dDj TIL that when chimpanzees were given opportunity to watch TV, their favorite was the Playboy Channel