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TIL Google rents goats to replace lawnmowers at their Mountain View headquarters

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LQveP TIL the world's heaviest free-roaming tortoise is an Aldabra giant tortoise named Esmeralda who weighs 670 pounds (304kg), lives on Bird Island, Seychelles & is thought to be as much as 170 years old. He was named by famous botanist/zoologist Lyall Watson.
8aPKL TIL that the ‘Wilhelm Scream’, a distinctive stock audio scream, which has appeared in over 300 movies was voiced by Sheb Wooley who went onto record The Purple People Eater.
gM9j4 TIL that women of the French royalty were required to give birth in public. Sometimes those births had scores of witnesses
78DNO TIL On the dashboard of your car, where you can see the amount of petrol you have, there is a small arrow next to the icon showing where your fuel cap is
Mneb TIL the term “Riding shotgun” was used to describe the guard who rode alongside a stagecoach driver, ready to use his shotgun to ward off bandits or Native Americans.