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TIL there is a town called Okay, OK

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OGO87 TIL that antivenom is made by injecting large animals like horses or sheep with non-lethal doses of venom until the animal builds up a sufficient immune response to the venom. The animal’s blood is then collected and antibodies to the venom are extracted and isolated to create purified antivenom.
Kv8a TIL that Philip J Fry from Futurama is named after Matt Groening’s father “Homer Philip Groening”, not after Phil Hartman.
W7P4 TIL that more US states allow sex with animals than allow gay marriage
9YejM TIL Saudia Arabia accidentally printed thousands of textbooks containing an image of Yoda sitting next to King Faisal while he signed the 1945 UN charter
4k8A6 TIL of The Golden Spruce, a 300 year old, 170ft tall, Sitka spruce with a rare genetic mutation that gave its needles a golden color. It was a sacred symbol of the Haida people of British Columbia. It was cut down by Grant Hadwin, a forest engineer, as an act of protest of the logging industry.