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TIL That Mr Burns telephone greeting in The Simpsons, ‘Ah-Hoy!’ was actually how Alexander Graham Bell thought people should answer the telephone when he invented it.

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woexY TIL Scientists genetically modified goats to spin spider silk from their udders. US Professor Randy Lewis transplanted a gene into the goats from a spider that allows the goats to produce milk containing an extra protein. This is then extracted from the goat milk and spun into spider silk thread.
9YxyQ TIL that South America has a growing hippo population, thanks to Pablo Escobar
ZnMQ TIL that William Whipple freed his slave because he believed that no man could fight for freedom while holding another in bondage
epprL TIL that the Pink Panthers are an international jewel thief network responsible for a number of robberies and thefts described as some of the most audacious in the history of organized crime since 2003. The organization has roughly 800 men and women core members, many of whom are ex-soldiers.
v1AAD TIL of Eastern Airlines Flight 401, which crashed after the entire cockpit crew had become preoccupied with changing a lightbulb.