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TIL cows have best friends and become sad when they are separated

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AxJa TIL that on his deathbed, Voltaire was asked by a priest to renounce the Devil. Voltaire responded: “Now now, my good man. This is no time for making enemies.”
ANOJd TIL at the end of Pink Floyd’s song "Eclipse", an orchestral cover of the Beatles song "Ticket to Ride" by the Hollyridge Strings can be faintly heard. That was unintended, as the music was playing in the background at Abbey Road when doorman Gerry O'Driscoll was recording his lines for the song.
Brx9y TIL that a "moment" is a medieval unit of time equivalent to about 90 seconds today.
74Mb TIL: The Emperor of China who built the Great Wall suppressed intellectual thoughts and unified political opinion by burning books and burying scholars alive.
pY6pG TIL that James Doohan, the actor who played Scotty on Star Trek, came up with the sound and tone of the Klingon Language for Star Trek The Motion Picture. A linguist, Marc Okrand, later used those lines created by Doohan to turn it into an actual language.