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TIL: There are no green mammals and they cannot make green pigment.

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QNjdL TIL In 1894 Hart Massey left Massey Hall to all the people of Toronto, asking that tickets would remain accessible for the poor. "Ideally, once all expenses were paid, Massey wanted tickets for a season of lectures to sell for $1."
ZBXa TIL that Merlin the Wizard was possibly based on the legend of a real person, Myrddin Wyllt, a bard who went crazy watching the defeat and slaughter of his Celtic King Gwenddoleu and his army, and spent the rest of his life in the forest living among animals as a madman.
b6ZV7 TIL that the longest cow horn ever recorded is 10 feet 7.4 inches tip to tip and belong to a cow named Poncho, hailing from Clay County Alabama. Poncho is a family pet that was hand reared by the Pope family from 6 months old. Apparently he has always been 'big-boned'.
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