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TIL the family dog has a bigger carbon footprint than an SUV

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xZOg TIL in 1974, a man named Phillipe Petit illegally walked across the Twin Towers on a tightrope. Upon being arrested by the police, Petit was required to give a free aerial show for children in Central Park, and was granted permanent access to the tower’s observation deck.
b6gQj TIL: Asymptomatic pigs can carry BSE(Mad Cow Disease) prions and become a reservoir for the disease.
gnXD TIL one of the oldest companies in the world(nearly 400 years old), Zildjian, a cymbal manufacturing company was founded by an alchemist when trying to turn base metals into gold.
b6ZV7 TIL that the longest cow horn ever recorded is 10 feet 7.4 inches tip to tip and belong to a cow named Poncho, hailing from Clay County Alabama. Poncho is a family pet that was hand reared by the Pope family from 6 months old. Apparently he has always been 'big-boned'.
KW0Q TIL Sidney Crosby wears number 87, was born on 8/7/87, and makes $8.7 million a year