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TIL A consumer reports poll found that 93% of doctors are concerned about the common meat industry practice of using antibiotics on healthy animals

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nyxd TIL that Okapis have 14 inch long prehensile tongues and are capable of reaching and cleaning their own eyes and ears with it.
LQE8v TIL the average elephant poops 220 pounds (100 kg) a day.
oBR5E TIL that the Japanese have a word ("shimensoka") that means "being forsaken by everybody" or "being surrounded by enemies on all sides"
GAv0G TIL that in ancient Rome plebeians would leave the cities during the "secession of the plebeians." This left the elites to fend for themselves.
0wYJN Today I Learned that Veggietales wasn't originally going to have vegetables as the characters. Phill Vischer simply needed character models that were easy to animate in the early days of computer animation. Vegetables didn’t require animating arms, legs, or hair like humans or animals would.