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TIL about 21% of beef in the US comes from culled dairy cows, sold for slaughter at around age 5 when their milk production drops off. This culling increases profitability and so subsidizes the cost of the milk production.

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pvJN TIL that the FBI identified the Unabomber – in part – due to him using the phrase “you can’t eat your cake and have it too” instead of “you can’t have your cake and eat it too” in his manifesto.
LRB0 TIL even though the 1980 eruption of Mt. St. Helens is considered a medium sized eruption relative to other volcanic eruptions, the landslide that happened less than a second before was the largest landslide in recorded history
nKZr TIL 70% of Tasmanian devils have died since 1996 due to a contagious facial cancer with a 100% fatality rate
YPy7 TIL The Netherlands are closing eight prisons across their country because of lack of crime.
gbYW TIL “Pulling Yourself Up By Your Bootstraps” originally meant attempting something ludicrous or impossible