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TIL that there is a system where cows can choose when they are milked. The whole process is automated, customized for each cow, and has seen cows living 30% longer than those at farms that use traditional methods.

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b9gB9 TIL that groundbreaking new cancer therapies ramp up the body's own immune system to eradicate cancer cells. One promising immunotherapy method, known as CAR T, has shown incredible success in clinical trials with children when most other options have failed.
xV6eB TIL that Ryan Gosling after watching "Rambo" took some knives with him to school and threw them at other children.
xVKQB TIL the 1980 comedy "Airplane!" is a remake of the 1957 drama "Zero Hour!" Both are about a guilt-stricken fighter pilot who called upon to land a plane after the crew and several passengers fall ill after eating fish. Many of the lines in "Airplane!" were taken verbatim from "Zero Hour!"
M7KWb TIL that in 1868 the first non-electric gas-lit traffic light was installed in London outside the Houses of Parliament to control the traffic in adjacent streets. Its operational life was brief: it exploded a month later as a result of a leak injuring the policeman operating the traffic light.
6Mo8 TIL that wolves have musical culture that changes depending on geographic location. Though mutually intelligible, howls of European wolves are much more protracted and melodious than those of North American wolves, whose howls are louder and have a stronger emphasis on the first syllable.