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TIL ruminates like cows and camels gain protein by digesting some of the microbes that grow in their stomachs.

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aQMZ TIL all of our terrestrial radio and television broadcasts become indistinguishable from background noise at only a few light years away from the Earth thanks to the inverse square law
wKwW TIL that Violet Jessop, who survived the sinking of the Titanic, also survived the sinking of it’s sister ship, the Britanic, and a collision on it’s third sister ship, the Olympic.
4XxlX TIL that it is not illegal to grow, possess and consume "magic mushrooms" (Psilocybe cubensis) here in Brazil (basically because we don't have a law against it) and there is even a web store selling them (alongside shitake, shiimeji and porcini mushrooms).
64A8 TIL that the formula used to calculate the US’ poverty level is outdated. It is based off of the cost of living during the 1960’s when food was a family’s largest expenditure. If adjustments are made to the formula to reflect life today, then around 45.7 million Americans would be living in poverty.
0wobL TIL raccoons wash their food yo soften it because they don’t have saliva glands.