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TIL adding a small amount of seaweed to a cow's diet, can decrease the amount of methane they produce by nearly 60%

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VMNBm TIL: King George III's Statue: George Washington’s Men Beheaded And Melted It Down For Bullets In 1776
R7Oea TIL that Michael Jackson suffered from severe insomnia and did not get any real sleep for 60 days prior to his death. Instead, his personal doctor had been putting him under general anestheisa every night.
BgaEK TIL Pan-Am's first Round-the-World flight was unplanned. The flight's return journey via Hawaii was cancelled after Pearl Harbor was attacked, and with the help of Auckland's library system, a route was plotted to return to America via Indonesia, Sri Lanka, Sudan, Congo, and Brazil.
ZpPyG TIL fingerprinting for identifying criminals was invented in Argentina in 1891. It was used to solve a murder case in 1892 where a woman murdered her sons and tried to blame a neighbor.
69DZX TIL WILDCAT BANKING; that in India’s Thar Desert, nomadic camel caravans once worked like mobile banks, carrying people’s savings safely across hundreds of miles, centuries before digital banking.