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TIL foals are born with “fairy fingers” on their feet to protect the mother from the hard hooves during birth

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4X5NJ TIL that Julia Child, autor of The French Chef, helped the US military in WW2 to develop a shark repellant that is still used today.
xxB1 TIL HBO hired 160 lawyers in order to make their 2015 documentary about Scientology.
R79Yl TIL: National Pizza Month observance began in October 1984, and was created by Gerry Durnell, the publisher of Pizza Today magazine.
xd9b TIL that the “Tetris” tune is actually a 150 year old Russian folk song in which a street vendor flirts with a customer while haggling over goods.
EgMj7 TIL that’s illegal to not smile in Milan, Italy. The exceptions are for people who attend funerals or those at the bedside of a family member suffering from a serious disease.