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TIL that Farm Animals Get 80 Percent of Antibiotics Sold in the U.S.

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xV8B5 TIL that conservationists created a match.com profile for the world’s loneliest frog named Romeo, in order to raise funds for expeditions to find more of his species. Their work paid off, and Romeo and Juliet are together at last.
GA5QJ TIL that publisher Jonathan Cape initially accepted Animal Farm by Orwell, but backtracked after a warning from Ministry of Information. It was later discovered that the civil servant who likely gave the warning was a Soviet spy.
Eg6Rp TIL in 1976 Cleveland became the bombing capitol of America due to organized crime members bombing each other
xV1dB TIL there are about 100 people, mostly elderly women, that currently live in the Chernobyl exclusion zone
6ZBZ TIL there is a large frozen mass under Antarctica that stretches almost 14 miles and we have no idea what it is.