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

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gMYQ7 TIL Mosquitoes love type O blood for no good reason. -- protect yourself with a goid insect repellent!
9Wmm TIL that kids need recess. It helps them release anxiety, helps them learn socially and helps them learn better while in school. Taking away recess does more harm than good.
OGn6e TIL the manikin flying around the moon right now is named after Arturo Campos, the NASA engineer responsible for the plan to provide the Apollo 13 command module with enough power to get home safely, which was represented by Gary Sinise in the Apollo 13 film.
kkrm TIL when Peter the Great found his wife had a lover he had the man beheaded, then forced her to keep her lover’s head in a jar of alcohol in her bedroom which stood in Catherine’s bedroom till Peter’s death.
pYvOe TIL “Just Desserts” is a pun. The original phrase, “Just Deserts”, describes not desert climates but “moral deserts”—or, things which one morally deserves. “Desert” and “Deserve” share an old French root, but the word “desert” is very rarely used in this form in modern day.