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TIL happy cows produce more milk, and simply the act of calling them by their real name ups the production by an extra 3.5%

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Eg5Ep TIL because US constitutional amendment ratification doesn't have a deadline, the amendment proposed in 1861 for making slavery constitutionally protected could in theory still be ratified
VBYlG TIL America own an uninhabited zone called Howland and Baker Island, halfway between Australia and Hawaii. It observes it's own time zone called "Anywhere on Earth". A day has passed everywhere on Earth according to this time. Amelia Earhart was trying to reach here in 1937 before she disappeared.
5gD9 TIL the astrophysicist who first proposed what is now know as the “Big Bang” theory, was the Catholic priest, Georges Lemaître.
BgbOy TIL that when Charles II of Spain died on 1 November 1700, at age 38, the autopsy recorded that his "heart was the size of a peppercorn; his lungs corroded; his intestines rotten and gangrenous; he had a single testicle, black as coal, and his head was full of water." Apart from that he was OK.
7wkZ TIL that Jimi Hendrix lived in the same London apartment block, on Brook Street, that the composer Handel lived in two centuries before. It is now known as Handel House.