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TIL that sheep can remember the faces of up to 50 other sheep as well as their shepherd.

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gR6D TIL a woman, after eating Cap'n Crunch: Crunchberries for 4 years, tried to sue PepsiCo when she realized Crunchberries weren’t a real fruit.
Mw0m TIL That Leonardo da Vinci claimed to have dissected more than 30 people in his pursuit to further understand human anatomy, and his more than 240 detailed drawings and over 13,000 words of observations revealed many then unknown characteristics of our bodies. However, all this remain unpublished.
6EPR8 TIL that Ulysses S. Grant and his wife Julia were invited to Ford's theater by Abraham Lincoln on April 14, 1865. They declined to attend because neither one of them could stand Mary Lincoln.
1awV7 TIL of an illegal program, called ‘Project Mkultra’ , conducted by the CIA on American and Canadian human subjects, with the goal of developing drugs and procedures to force confessions through mind control, interrogation, and torture.
oBajE TIL that in 1961 the cost per GFLOPS for computer performance was US$145.5 billion dollars adjusted to US 2013 inflation. As of 2017, the cost per GLOPS was US$0.03 cents. This enormous difference in cost comes out to be a %99.999999999979 decrease in cost per GLOPS over 56 years.