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TIL about Minnie Moo a real cow owned by Disney World that had spots that looked like Mickey Mouse

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7gaZ TIL - On this day, 160 years ago, Britain & France declared war on Russia and entered the Crimean War
mx1dE If it’s a particularly contagious virus, it would spread across the planet in a year. “If it starts in New York, it’s going to be in London certainly within a week,” says Ira Longini, a biostatistician at the University of Washington and the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center in Seattle who uses computer models to analyze how viruses globe-trot. “And from there, it will quickly travel to the rest of North America and Europe.” For Longini’s computer forecasts to become reality, though, certain conditions would need to be met.
m1vZx TIL that the power symbol is just a combination of the "I" and "O" on a power switch
6EkX7 TIL fossilization is so rare that scientists estimate less one-tenth of 1% of all the animal species that have ever lived have become fossils.
lWlK TIL about “token sucking” - someone, generally a homeless person, earns his sustenance by clogging the token receptacle in the subway turnstile with gum or a paperclip. The tokens become backed up in the receptacle and then “sucks them out by placing his lips around the opening and inhaling.”