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TIL the British painted their cows with stripes during WWII to avoid car accidents during blackouts

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O794 TIL that Beelzebufo, aka the Frog From Hell, is the largest known frog species to have ever lived. Its diet may have included juvenile dinosaurs.
e0mr5 TIL raindrops on Saturn's largest moon, Titan (the only other known world with seasonal rainfall) would be twice as big as raindrops on Earth and would fall as slow as snowflakes. Also, they're made of liquid methane, not water.
RZX8 TIL that Aztec kings wore cloaks made entirely of hummingbird skins—it would take about 8,000 hummingbirds to create an adult-size cloak.
l85K TIL Judy Garland received $35 a week for her role in the Wizard of Oz. Toto, the famous dog, received $125.
v18X4 TIL In 1970, the Oregon Highway Division consulted with the US Navy and decided the best way to dispose of a whale carcass was to blow it up with a 1/2 ton of dynamite. The explosion caused blubber to rain down on spectators for over a 1/4 of a mile. A large chunk demolished a car.