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

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0v1y TIL that Amazon owns IMDB and is used to sell their movies.
NMj6 TIL George Reeves; the 1950’s Superman, had a young boy point a gun on him to test “Superman’s” Invincibility. Reeves convinced him to put the gun down by telling him someone else would get hurt when the bullet bounced off
eepD TIL that Albert Einstein worked as an electrician on the Oktoberfest 1896.
xVWj1 TIL the city of Carmel, IN has the most roundabouts per city in the US, with a total of 138. Since regular intersections were replaced with roundabouts, the number of accidents here has reduced by 40%.
4XeK6 TIL During the 1960 campaign, Kennedy learned that a group of Kenyan students who had won scholarships to study at American universities didn't have enough funds to come. When Eisenhower refused to intervene, JFK arranged to have the Kennedy family foundation underwrite their travel