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TIL cows “moo” in different accents based on their region.

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JOLB TIL that a high school football coach got half the fans of his own team to cheer for the other team, because the other team was from a maximum-security juvenile correctional facility and didn’t have any fans of their own.
9wKjr TIL that when boxer Sonny Liston became world heavyweight, he had prepared a speech for the crowd he was told would be greeting him at the airport. No crowd turned up, and this is put at the point that Liston realised he would never be accepted as champion.
BrOMy TIL from the 1860s to the 1928, in some jurisdictions of the Southern United States, prisoners were leased to private businesses
vPMyD TIL the Madagascar buttonquail is a ground-dwelling species with an unusual breeding biology in which the sexual dimorphism is reversed, with female being more brightly coloured than the male and it is the male that incubates the eggs and mainly cares for the young.
gr014 TIL that in Los Angeles, in 2023 every 50h a pedestrian was killed in a car related accident. In 2021, that number was every 66h. LA is the second deadliest US city for pedestrians.