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TIL that pigs have rings in the side of their nostrils to keep them from rooting

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VMpK4 TIL Rob Lowe is uncredited in the film Tommy Boy because he was contractually obligated to another movie at the time, Steven King's The Stand. The reason he filmed Tommy Boy was due to his friendship with Chris Farley.
awgdA TIL Americans spent about $150b on cocaine, heroin, marijuana, and meth in 2016, about the same amount they spent on alcohol.
8w5K TIL Google founders Sergey Brin and Larry Page have expressed their desire to see the search engine become artificial intelligence itself. To achieve that goal, they created the highly-protected “X lab.”
7rnEM TIL Queen Elizabeth II has had a lifelong love for Corgi dogs. She was gifted her 1st Corgi, “Susan,” in 1944 for her 18th b-day. Since ascending to the throne in 1952, Queen Elizabeth had over 30 Corgis, all descendants of her 1st Corgi Susan. The last descendant died 74 years later, in 2018.
7raZM TIL the world's tallest man (Bao Xishun, 7' 9") once saved the lives of two dolphins by reaching into their stomachs to remove plastic shards.