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TIL Frogs are becoming extinct.

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d8GY7 TIL for three years Milka (Swiss/German chocolate brand) used a lilac-colored promotional tour boat with a five-meter-high cow mascot on the rivers of Germany and Austria. This boat was named the “Muhboot” (pronounced Moo-boat)
l7ZEV TIL Beef was rarely eaten in ancient China, as cows & bulls were used mostly for transportation. Only nobility could eat beef- but only if the animal died naturally or from old age.
rwLx TIL that the Ostrich-Egg Globe may be the oldest globe, dated 1504, to depict the New World, engraved with immaculate detail on two conjoined halves of ostrich eggs.
QJkVE TIL the etymology of the word "clue" is from a Greek myth, when Theseus enters the Labyrinth to kill the Minotaur (a half-man, half-bull). He unraveled a "clew" -a ball of string- behind him, so he could find his way out of the labyrinth. "Clew" was mispelled overtime, but kept its symbolic meaning.
OGyX TIL that cocaine has more medicinal properties than marijuana, according to the DEA