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TIL: the Red-necked wallaby, found in eastern Australia & Tasmania, eats roots & leaves & also likes weed

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wonm1 TIL that cows can produce pink milk when they eat carrots. The diet also contains grass and hay.
PY5KE TIL though dogs are known for their powerful sense of smell compared to humans, we beat dogs in sense of taste. A human tongue contains 9,000 taste buds, dogs have only around 1,700.
6E5lw TIL The Hobbit has been published in two editions. In the first edition, Gollum willingly bet on his ring in the riddle game.
X0glD TIL a group from California that represents plum farmers and distributors promoted the use of prune puree on school lunch beef patties following declining prune sales in the mid 90s. This lead to a short lived period of schools incorporating fruit fused burgers into their students diet.
n5OW TIL that in 1985 two researchers from Oxford published a paper that put the definitive date of Jesus’ crucifixion at Friday, April 3, 33 AD