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TIL that a cowlick is called a cowlick because cows lick their young and cause spiral patterns in their coat.

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a87wo TIL Colin Hanks (Tom Hanks Son) owns a handkerchief company called Hanks Kerchiefs
YpwMZ TIL a schoolboy allergic to cheese died after a student threw a piece of cheese at him.
Wk51A TIL that NASA acquired F/A-18 Hornets from the U.S. Navy between 1984 and 1991.
BrGWx TIL At the former Patrice Lumumba University in Moscow, West African students are still making the most of Cold War ties with the USSR
yQVlM TIL that 12,000 bears are farmed for their bile in Asia which is used in traditional Chinese medicine and generates $2bn per year. Farming always involves surgery on the bears to insert a catheter or to cut a hole through the abdomen by which the bile leaks. Bear bile has no medicinal effect.