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

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pYdW8 TIL as part of its foreign policy the Nixon administration actively portrayed the president as an out of control madman to try and convince hostile nations that he was capable of anything at anytime. Including nuclear war. Nixon dubbed this strategy "Madman Theory".
M7DwA TIL After flying into Earth orbit in Apollo 7, Donn Eisele and his crew never went to space again, as divorce and a testy crew commander led to the astronauts being labeled as troublemakers. Unknown to everyone, Eisele wrote a detailed memoir that was only discovered and published after his death
1aa0W TIL that the US Navy had a warship named USS Ponce (bit of a different meaning in British English)
yVnMl TIL that dogs have instincts that prepare them for the start of winter, and as days become shorter, hormonal signals are sent to their brains, altering their metabolism, and in turn increasing their appetite.
mdNY TIL research has found that ecstasy has robust anticancer properties, particularly for leukemia, lymphoma and myeloma.