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TIL to flush a horses tear duct in their eyes, the vet syringe the solution through their nostril, not their eyeball.

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woGvM TIL that Audrey Hepburn declined the offer from Otto Frank to play his daughter, Anne, in the 1959 film adaptation of The Diary of Anne Frank. Audrey declined, because she did not want to relive her wartime experiences in German occupied Holland.
kJ6K7 TIL that the Simon and Garfunkel's song "Bridge Over Troubled Water" inverts the meaning of "troubled water" found in traditional African-American spirituals. The original line the song was based on was by Gospel singer Claude Jeter and referred to a bridge over "deep" water, not troubled.
NWpe TIL Johnny Carson once joked on The Tonight Show about a nonexistent toilet paper shortage which led to eventual panic buying leaving store shelves empty causing a real shortage that lasted weeks
nWXmW TIL researchers at a base in Antarctica started to develop a new accent
XEJ6X TIL the Pale Man in Pan's Labyrinth is meant to represent the Catholic Church and its role in aiding fascism