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TIL There is a company offering testicular implants for pets, Neuticles, which aims to prevent the emotional hardship pets undergo by getting neutered.

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KOLya TIL A full-sized tree has been growing out of the 110 ft steeple of a courthouse in Indiana since the 1870s
VVoB TIL in 2012 Verizon’s CFO, addressed data plan concerns, telling attendees at a Goldman Sachs investor conference “Unlimited is just a word, it doesn’t really mean anything.” He continued: “That whole unlimited thing, I think, is going by the wayside.”
NXnnP TIL Jimmy Carter has to go past a giant grinning peanut statue every week to get to church. He reportedly hates the thing.
lgdV TIL that in 1945 Soviet school children presented a US Ambassador with a carved US Seal as a gesture of friendship. It hung in his office for 7 years before discovering it contained a listening device.
jN0eX TIL it used to be common for woman in the US to wear extremely long metal hatpins but in 1910 hatpins longer than 9 inches were banned because woman were using them for self-defence and/or accidentally killing people with them.