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TIL that while the US allows the rBST hormone in dairy cattle, Canada has banned it because of its negative effects on health and wellness of cows; Canada also has higher quality milk due to its lower Somatic Cell Count.

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kJJ44 TIL in the founding myth of New York penned by Washington Irving, the Dutch settlers negotiated to buy an underpants-sized plot of Manhatten from the Lenape, only to unveil an enormous pair of pantaloons once the deed was signed
EgnpP TIL that in 2005, Paleontologist Mary Schweitzer of North Carolina State University found collagen fibers in the fossilized leg bone of a Tyrannosaurus rex.
aMGy TIL Jim Carrey sucked on Shannon Wirrey’s real boob which had milk in them in “Me, Myself & Irene”. He felt so humiliated that he had to clear the set before each take.