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TIL that 99% of all puppies sold at pet stores come from puppy mills.

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67pw TIL that a male moose will break off it’s antlers after mating season to conserve energy for winter, and regrow a new set each year; which can grow up to an inch a day, making it one of the fastest growing animal organs!
Br0Vx TIL Indiana was the last state to allow Coors to be sold owing to exclusive distributorship rules.
0wOa1 TIL about Yolanda Saldivar, a nurse who quit her job to become Tejana music star Selena's fan club president in San Antonio, then proceeded to embezzle thousands from her. She shot the singer dead in 1995 after being confronted for her actions.
awL8N TIL that courtroom artists in the UK & Hong Kong draw their sketches from memory as they are not permitted to draw in the court.
rR4bo TIL of the “Great Sparrow Campaign” (打麻雀运动), during which Mao Zedong ordered the Chinese people to kill all sparrows, because they were eating farmers’ seeds. With the sparrows dead, the insect population exploded, and locusts devastated the rice fields.