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

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v1OPB TIL that when River Phoenix's agents wouldn't let him see the screenplay for My Own Private Idaho, Keanu Reeves rode his motorcycle from Canada to River's home in Florida to hand deliver it himself.
gOv8 TIL that, in Switzerland, it is legal to downloaded pirated movies/music for private use. They even conducted a study and found piracy does not affect sales.
4kljo TIL in 2020, archaeologists discovered a perfectly preserved food restaurant in Pompeii from 2,000-years-ago, complete with painted counters and traces of ancient meals like duck, snails, and goat stew still in their containers.
DMMp TIL The ozone hole, which was first spotted 25 years ago, is close to closing
epDZb TIL exactly what it means to be “Hanged, drawn and quartered”: “…fastened to a hurdle, or wooden panel, and drawn by horse to the place of execution, where he was then hanged (almost to the point of death), emasculated, disembowelled, beheaded, and quartered (chopped into four pieces).”