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TIL Friederike Bruning visited India in 1978 to look for a guru, but ended up staying after buying a cow at a neighbor’s insistence. She started a cowshed for abandoned animals and has since saved over 1,800, earning the name “Sudevi Mataji”.

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g8kW TIL the old meme that suggests Sarah Jessica Parker looks like a horse originated from a scene she had with Bill Murray and Johnny Depp in the 1994 movie “Ed Wood”
5VVQp TIL about the Faraday School Kidnapping that occurred in 1972 in Victoria, Australia, where two men kidnapped a teacher her six students for a ransom of $1,000,000. The kidnapping inspired the HBO movie, "Fortress", which portrayed the kidnappers as gun-wielding maniacs wearing Halloween masks.
6E6QX TIL the single largest institutional user of fossil fuels is the US Military.
6QZQ TIL Johnny Carson once jokingly stated “You know what’s disappearing from the supermarket shelves? Toilet paper. There’s an acute shortage of toilet paper in the United States.” resulting in people stocking up their toilet paper reserves resulting in an actual shortage in many areas.
R78b8 TIL about a murderer who got caught 4 years after the crime because he had gotten the murder scene tattooed on his chest