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TIL: After hundreds of years spent to domesticate a pig, when reintroduced into the wild in a matter of weeks they can revert back to a state where it will get hairy, grow tusks and get aggressive.

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mKRP TIL that the original version of “I put a spell on you” was not sang by Nina Simone, but by the far too excentric Screamin’ Jay Hawkins. It was supposed to be a blues ballad, but after some chicken, ribs and boose, they came out with this version
78ZLb TIL that English Pouter Pigeons exist
78PpP TIL in the Canary Island shepherds whistle while they work,and their brain process it as language. It’s called Silvo Gomero.
j6xrQ TIL the first fax machine was introduced in 1865, 11 years before the telephone
awxDM TIL that in 2002, a Marvel comics writer based an alternate version of Nick Fury on Samuel L Jackson, using his image without permission. Jackson discovered this and nearly took legal action. Marvel offered to cast him as Fury if the character was ever in a movie. Jackson took the deal.