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TIL Warthogs don't actually have warts. Their "warts" are really just tough protective skin to help cushion blows during fights.

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kJOye TIL that Ketogenic diets are a viable treatment option for epilepsy that has not responded to multiple antiepileptic drugs (refractory seizures). It is also under investigation for utility in Alzheimer's.
VMJvZ TIL the Vietnam War is the only war in American history in which US war dogs were not allowed to officially return home after the war. Classified as expendable equipment, around 3500 dogs who were not killed in action were either euthanised or left behind.
ANbNB TIL that the first British ocean-going iron warship deployed and operated in China during the first Opium War
J110m TIL Ohio issues bright yellow “party plates” to drivers with DUI convictions.
Oag1 TIL 65 nations refused to participate in the 1980 Summer Olympic Games to protest the 1979 Soviet invasion of Afghanistan. Afghanistan wasn’t one of them, sending 11 athletes to compete.