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TIL prior to the 1900s, cows were impregnated naturally in order to get milk

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neV8b TIL The town of Shitterton, England, kept getting its town sign stolen. In 2010, they finally solved the problem by installing a 1.6 tonne concrete slab with the town name inscribed on it.
ppJG TIL a civil war veteran lived to see thermonuclear weapons and I Love Lucy
awglb TIL Switzerland has no landfills. 50% of the municipal waste is recycled, 50% is incinerated to produce electricity
ylka TIL there is a 103 year old orca whale named Granny. She predates the Titanic!
vBE4 TIL that of the 112 deaths during the construction of the Hoover dam. The first was J.G.Tierney, a surveyor who drowned on December 20, 1922. His son, Patrick, was the last man to die working on the dam’s construction, 13 years to the day later.