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TIL Kalmyk dairy farmers used to milk stubborn cattle by penetrating the cows with large wooden dildos, forcing them to be stimulated enough to get a higher yield

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VkJm TIL that I, V, X, L, C, D, M aren’t the only letters used in roman numerals; “S” is used to represent ½ along with dots for other fractions
NYJN TIL in 2007 hundreds of people gathered at the coordinate from xkcd episode 240 - story of a man who met a girl in dream that ended with him saying ‘wanting something doesn’t make it real’. When the time was up author Randall Munroe appeared and said “Maybe wanting something does make it real.”
VM7M0 TIL that it is legal to marry your first cousin in California and New York... but not in Kentucky, Louisiana, or Mississippi.
e6wg TIL Dolly Parton set up a charity that distributes eight million children’s books per year for free
mxZNo TIL of the ‘Wheaton Bandit’ who robbed 16 banks in the mid 2000s, but had the statute of limitations expire on his crimes