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TIL Cows moo in “regional accents”

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KYyrR TIL 20 of 33 states with a state beverage have selected milk 🥛
4XPXX TIL Bond girl Maryam d'Abo from "The Living Daylights", the sweet and vulnerable Czechoslovakian cellist and would-be sniper who falls for James Bond, appeared in a Bond-themed Playboy cover and multi-page pictorial in the September 1987 issue
ADE7 TIL that the Danish King Harald Blatand ate so many blueberries that his teeth stained blue. “Bluetooth” is named after him because of his ability to unite warring Scandinavian factions, just as Bluetooth unites wireless devices. The Bluetooth logo is also a combination of the Kings Runic initials.
7rPWL TIL the last known grizzly bear in Colorado died when she attacked a bow hunter named Ed Wiseman. Wiseman played dead at first but decided to fight back when the bear did not stop mauling him. He picked up a loose arrow and stabbed the bear in her jugular.
m1DxY TIL in 1979 the campaign promise of two guys running for student government included bringing the Statue of Liberty Wisconsin. When they won, they spent $4,000 of University funds creating a replica of Lady Liberty buried up to her eyes in frozen Lake Menota