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TIL: Horses have the largest eyes of any land mammal
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JYDE8
TIL Arnold Schwarzenegger wasn't allowed to dub his own role in Terminator in German, as his accent is considered very rural by German/Austrian standards and it would be too ridiculous to have a death machine from the future come back in time and sound like a hillbilly.
v06L
TIL, pharmaceutical companies pay their competitors to not make generic forms of their drugs so they can continue to charge more to consumers.
e0Wgg
TIL about "The Great Leveler," a book that argues that the greatest redistributions of wealth in history are during times of war, plague, and catastrophe, citing the Black Death and WWI as "actually suppressing inequality, by raising the price of labour."
KOLwE
TIL that journalist and feminist icon Gloria Steinem is the stepmother to Oscar-winning actor Christian Bale.
4X5D5
TIL that Montpelier, Vermont is the only state capital in the US without a McDonald's!