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TIL that zoopharmacogneosy is the science that studies how animals self medicate in the wild by ingesting or applying specific plants or non foods such as clay and charcoal.

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NDBP TIL The world slut was orginially used to describe a woman who did not keep her room tidy
GYBDN TIL that sitting inside of a snowed-in car with the engine running can be deadly if the tailpipe is clogged with snow.
o7Ar TIL that up until Pearl Harbor, the shoulder patch of the U.S Army’s 45th Infantry Division was the swastika.
lobBB TIL that while rare, cow vagina is a delicacy street food usually eaten in South East Asia, especially Vietnam.
wLn5Y TIL that in 1642, Connecticut settler George Spencer was suspected of bestiality when a local pig birthed a piglet that resembled Spencer. He confessed, and they hanged both George and the pig. Another settler was later convicted of the same crime, named Thomas Hogg.