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TIL that adding a type of seaweed to the diet of cows reduces their methane production by 70%.

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NlxP TIL that since 1989, six-pack rings have been manufactured to be 100 percent photo-degradable, so the plastic will begin to disintegrate in just a few days, allowing animals to easily free themselves from the brittle and crumbling rings.
xV6r5 TIL that in early August 2017, a people smuggler off the coast of Yemen deliberately drowned at least 29 teenage migrants. The average age of the migrants was 16.
MYY7 TIL that the phrase “I have a bad feeling about this” was spoken in every Star Wars movie.
JYdMB TIL Rodney King died on Father’s Day in 2012 by drowning in a swimming pool. This was 28 years after his father died, also on Father’s Day, and also by drowning.
W7pOX TIL the annular solar eclipse means "ring" solar eclipse, and is not the same as total solar eclipse when you experience it