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

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8a7Ra TIL that sunflowers can help clean radioactive soil. Japan is currently using this to rehabilitate Fukashima. Over 10,000 packets of sunflower seeds have been sold to the people of the city.
VnBZ TIL the Arkansas School for the Deaf’s nickname is the Leopards. The Deaf Leopards.
WpvX TIL Ridley Scott was set to direct I Am Legend with Arnold Schwarzenegger as the lead, a dialogue free opening hour and an ending in line with Matheson’s original.
R75j4 TIL the last Boer war veteran died in 1993 aged 111 years old
ADlDl TIL about Sergeant York, a pacifist who was drafted into the US Army for WWI, and would later capture 132 Germans in a single raid on a German machine gun nest