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

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jQKa TIL An Australian tattoo artist offered free tattoos to those who wanted to cover self-harm scars; she did 50 free sessions and gave discounts to more.
yQWyp TIL When Edison was 15 he sold newspapers to the railroads, & saved the Station Master’s 2 yr old son from getting hit by a train.The Station Master repaid Edison by training him as a telegraph operator. Edison was adept and sold a better process to W.Union giving him the $ needed to launch his lab.
kED5 TIL ultrahigh-energy cosmic rays, the most energetic particles known to humans, all come from the same region of the universe and are caused by an physical process of unknown origin. The most powerful cosmic ray ever recorded carried energy of 300 billion billion eV.
R5nl TIL the amount of content on the World Wide Web that can’t be found by regular search engines is several orders of magnitude larger than the content that can be found.
x640b TIL a professional journalist was caught masturbating on a Zoom call but was still employed at a national news station