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TIL A cow-bison hybrid is called a “beefalo”

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DQOLV TIL Glenn Close's father was a surgeon who worked in Africa with ebola, as well as a very tiny town in Wyoming.
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KONlR TIL that Naftaly Frenkel was a prisoner in a Soviet Union work camp who proposed that inmates' food rations be linked to their rate of production. He was promoted to guard and eventually commandant. He would later oversee construction of the White Sea–Baltic Canal by forced labor.
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rNmo0 TIL an standard American football field is 53.3 yards wide. For more than 50 years I thought it was 50 yards wide.