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TIL that 65% of the world drinks goat milk over cow milk.

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4Xvja TIL that in early Vietnam, after a Chinese general assassinated a man suspected of creating a revolt, the mans wife and her sister created and headed an army of 80,000 to take back Vietnam from the Han Dynasty. They then established an independent Vietnam for 3 years as 2 ruling Queens.
b6lG7 TIL that Iceland was once covered in trees until the Vikings came and cut them down to make room for sheep
xVOxw TIL the Lake Titicaca frog (Telmatobius culeus) does push-ups to help its saggy skin absorb the most oxygen possible from it's high altitude lake habitat
Y7Lex TIL The X Games have never drug tested athletes
aPVb TIL Apollo 12 commander Pete Conrad’s first word upon setting foot on the Moon was “Whoopee!” in order to win a $500 bet with an Italian journalist that NASA didn’t script astronaut declarations.