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TIL that horses from a breed called the 'Gypsy Vanner', no matter the sex, can grow a fancy mustache.

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kOGlg The name Earth is at least 1,000 years old. All of the planets, except for Earth, were named after Greek and Roman gods and goddesses. However, the name Earth is a Germanic word, which simply means “the ground.”
6RG7 TIL that in the 1870s, a woman named Nellie Cashman organized and led a party of six to take 1500 lbs of supplies to 26 miners stranded in the B.C. mountains by a snowstorm, after the Canadian Army refused to act because it was too dangerous.
GlpE TIL if you cut a bulldog ant in two, the two halves immediately get entranced in a fight to the death.
epQ4L TIL about Tonic Immobility or Trancing in rabbits. It is an immobile state rabbits go into as a defense mechanism and a state of fear when put on their backs.
J9gk TIL The elder brother to N. Korean leader Kim Jong Un, Kim Jong Nam, was passed over to become the heir apparent for illegally going to Disneyland.