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TIL About cow blowing - Someone is paid to spend all day blowing into the anus or vagina of cow, as it believed it helps it to produce more milk.

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nEVd TIL a skeleton, only 6-8 inches long was discovered outside a Chilean ghost town. It was declared to be human, and to have lived to be as old as 8 years. A definite explanation for it’s size, mutations, and origin has not been found.
6EJv7 TIL that Abraham Lincoln gave great prominence to hats as they would protect him from bad weather, help store important documents and made his height advantage more prominent
loMbK TIL sea urchins are called "sea urchins" because hedgehogs were called called "urchins" until about the 15th century. Therefore, sea urchins are ocean hedgehogs.
Bljd TIL there was a pilot filmed for a show called Idiot Quest, where you won points by giving the wrong answer to general-knowledge questions - but the contestants were hooked up to lie detectors to make sure they really didn’t know the answer. It never aired.
L0ym TIL your language affects how you see colors, such that a Himba speaker could not distinguish between blue and green, but could immediately separate almost identical shades of green