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TIL Mini pigs aka Teacup pigs are a hoax. They are just potbellied pigs that have been underfed to stunt their growth and will eventually grow to weigh 100-150 pounds.

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90Wr TIL A study showed that children whose parents placed the children’s pacifiers in their own mouths before giving it to the child were less likely to develop allergies like eczema and asthma later in life.
9E7m TIL that Oreo O’s were discontinued entirely in 2014 after the last company making them in South Korea intentionally contaminated them with E. coli.
xVg0g TIL that the 2014 WW2 Tank movie "Fury" (starring Brad Pitt) was the first time in almost 70 years that an authentic German Tiger 1 tank was used in a feature film.
a8jw9 TIL the Cretaceous-era turtle Kallokibotion bajazidi’s scientific name literally means “beautiful box of Bajazid” and that Franz Nopcsa von Felső-Szilvás, the paleontologist who named the species, named it that because the shape of the turtle’s shell reminded him of his lover Bajazid Doda’s butt.
4jQJ TIL the director of the Guinness Breweries, became in 1951 involved in an argument about the fastest bird in Europe. The realisation there is no book for world records made him create “The Guinness Book of Records” that itself holds the world record as the best-selling copyrighted book of all time.