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TIL cows can have best friends, and are significantly less stressed out when they get to hang out with them

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PypL TIL That Ancient Christians made Jesus’s birth date the same day as the roman holiday Saturnalia in an attempt to convert Pagans to Christianity. Nowhere in the Bible did it actually state that this was when Jesus was born.
wlr8 TIL that Gene Cernan promised his daughter that he’d write her initials on the moon. He did and they will be there for tens of thousands of years
lbdG TIL: A man saved a newborn baby from dumpster and found out that he was the father. The baby’s mother told the police she did not know she was pregnant until she gave birth to the child and allegedly put the living baby in a garbage bag and tossed him into the dumpster.
GArw5 TIL that librarians learned a specific penmanship called the "Library Hand." It does away with their individual writing styles to closely resemble typewriter output, where writing is uniform in size, width, slant, spacing, and form of letters.
b6GQZ TIL: Fourteen children have suffocated to death inside cedar chests between 1977 and 2015. In 1996, The Lane Company recalled 12 million cedar chests with latches that automatically locked the lid when it was closed.