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TIL that grazing cows align themselves with the Earth’s magnetic field.

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WV08 TIL the zero-gravity scenes in Apollo 13 are actually real. The crew filmed 4 hours of material in 612 parabola flights.
D1NAp TIL that in 2002 a UK man asked the court if he could settle his minor dirivng fine with a 'trial by combat', the court declined this request.
QRjM TIL that after the Muhammed cartoons controversy, an Iranian newspaper launched the ‘Holocaust Cartoon Competition’ to denounce “Western hypocrisy on freedom of speech”. The Danish journalist behind Muhammed cartoons said they’ll publish the Holocaust cartoons but he was ultimately fired.
VBoOQ TIL That when Jeanette Rankin took her seat as Montana's Congresswoman in the United States House of Representatives in 1917, she became the first woman ever elected to sit in a national parliament. To date, she is also the only woman ever elected to represent Montana in Congress.
5Yj9R TIL the man who found Forrest Fenn's treasure is being sued by another treasure hunter who claims she solved the puzzle first and he hacked her phone. She had been searching in New Mexico and the treasure was found in Wyoming.