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TIL that there is a species of Tigerfish in the Congo River which eats crocodiles.

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JGPl TIL of the “Hygiene Hypothesis”, which states that a kid’s environment can be too clean to stimulate a kid’s immune system resulting in those kids getting sick more than kids brought up in households in which the parents don’t constantly douse everything/everyone in disinfectant & hand sanitizer.
OmNL TIL that in Cuba a person can get more jail time for killing a cow (10 years in prison) than killing a human and that eaters of illegal beef can get three months to one year in prison
VBwV0 TIL in 1963 a 16 year old sent a four-question survey to 150 well-known authors (75 of which replied) in order to prove to his English teacher that writers don't intentionally add symbolic content to their books.
16Qn4 TIL Prince began grooming his future wife Mayte Garcia when she was 16 and he was 31.
nmdd TIL every horse that has run in the Kentucky Derby since 1990 can trace their bloodlines back to the Belle Meade Plantation (Nashville), and most came from the same sire: Bonnie Scotland