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TIL Cows moo in “regional accents”

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MeBKm TIL that Kleenex was invented and intended as a paper filter for gas-masks during World-War I.
vPMpL TIL 60% of Coachella tickets were bought on Afterpay-style plans, and many BNPL companies have lost lawsuits for operating without a lenders license and called their services “budgeting tools”
W7vN8 TIL that the true color of the sky is violet. Earth's atmosphere scatters shorter wavelengths, like blue and violet. However, our eyes are more sensitive to blue and less to violet, so we see the sky as blue.
mxrMY TIL A fictional island was created in 1977 by Britain's Newspaper Guardian as an April Fools day joke, complete with elaborate descriptions of the island nation's tourism and developing economy...
Y1j7 TIL maple syrup has more calcium than milk