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TIL cows are more closely related to dolphins than to horses

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R7rjl TIL a man in Arizona stole a diamond worth 160,000$ and traded it for 20$ worth of weed.
D1pjg TIL a man that killed his estranged wife, her daughter who was 14 months old & their son who was 4 with separate knives to not “cross contaminate” their blood & “allow demons inside them to live” & then plucked out his own eyeballs & ate them in prison was declared sane.
6EYaw TIL Johnny Cash performed dressed all in black, in contrast to most of the major country acts in his day – rhinestone suits and cowboy boots. Cash wrote the song "Man in Black" to explain that he wore black for the poor and hungry and those betrayed by age or drugs.
5nJP TIL that of the six men pictured in the iconic “Raising the Flag on Iwo Jima” photograph, three died during the following battle
MJlV TIL Stephen King threw away his original drafts of “Carrie” because he couldn’t write from a woman’s perspective. His wife retrieved them and launched his career.