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TIL a 45-year-old Brazilian man died after a cow fell through his roof onto him

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pyWA TIL a “Pig Toilet” is a human toilet/outhouse connected to a pig sty, providing human feces to the pigs as their food source
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NN8E TIL the Yale Club of New York City had sufficient foresight and finances to purchase enough alcohol to quench the thirst of its members throughout the entire 14 years of Prohibition.