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TIL that screensavers were originally created to save CRT screens from burning an image into the display due to prolonged, unchanged use.

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XERWE TIL African surgeons are often advised to treat hippo bites as a crushing injury rather than a penetration wound, due to the severity of damage to bones and internal organs. A majority of hippo attack survivors are left with a disability. Amputations are very common.
LQgJd TIL a chicken fell off the stage and on top of a cellist during a performance of the opera Boris Godunov in the Sydney Opera House's Joan Sutherland Theatre in the 1980s, which used live chickens in the performance. A net was subsequently installed above the orchestra pit.
EZd7 TIL Robert E. Lee not only considered slavery a moral & political evil, but his wife and daughter set up an illegal school for slaves at their Arlington plantation.
epar6 TIL both male and female reindeer grow antlers, and shed them each year. For Rudolph to have antlers in late December, some argue he/she would have to be female since males do not retain theirs that late into the year.
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