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TIL Transparent glass solar panels are already a reality

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DQG5J TIL cows have best friends and get stressed when separated from them. Studies have shown that cows form strong social bonds and show signs of stress when separated from their “best friends”.
LVEZ TIL TV mystery series ‘Columbo’ was so popular in Romania that when the show was cancelled the Romanian gov’t feared riots, so they had the US State Dept. ask Peter Falk to record a video message to the Romanian people, which he did by reading it phonetically into the camera
rjYd TIL lobsters used to be food for slaves and was used as fertilizer and fish bait. But that changed in the mid 1800s with the invention of canned food and railway transportation. Canned lobster became popular enough that people took trips to the coast for fresh lobster.
v1MgR TIL: No One Can Stop You from Owning a Kangaroo in Three US States! Freedom Baby!
e0BPk TIL that there’s a mountain range on Antarctica, similar to the size of the alps, that no one has ever seen because it’s completely covered by ice.