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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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v1J8r TIL in 1817 a woman posed as the fictional Princess Caraboo of Javasu. She fooled a small British town for months into believing she was a princess who had been captured by pirates, jumped overboard in the British Channel and swam ashore. She was later recognised as a cobbler's daughter from Devon.
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