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TIL that many animals commonly thought as herbivores will occasionally eat meat.

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XEe8 TIL The university of Texas football players ate their mascot at a sports banquet in 1920.
Oog1a TIL between 2004-2009, the Clean Water Act was violated more than 506,000 times, by more than 23,000 companies and other facilities. 40% of the nation’s community water systems violated the act at least once.
Z8Y0a TIL the Beatles album, Abbey Road, was originally going to be called Everest but none of the Beatles wanted to fly to the Himalayas to take a photo so they just called the album Abbey road.
gMgaL TIL that François-Marie Arouet derived his pen name 'Voltaire' from a Latin anagram of "The Young Arouet."
X0jOQ TIL Bert Janssen from the Netherlands is the longest-living heart transplant recipient in the world since 1984. The operation was done by Egyptian-born transplant pioneer Magdi Yacoub, who was knighted by Queen Elizabeth II in 1992 for his services to medicine.