TIL: During mating season, some stallions prefer mares of a certain color, meaning, low libido isn't the cause for the failed breeding.
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Veterinary Practice News
Stallion Won’t Breed?
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TIL that Scandinavians settled Greenland 300 years before native Greenlanders did
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Submitted September 03, 2024 at 03:32PM by Upstairs_Garden_687
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Greenland
Greenland (Greenlandic: Kalaallit Nunaat, .mw-parser-output .IPA-label-small{font-size:85%}.mw-parser-output .references .IPA-label-small,.mw-parser-output .infobox .IPA-label-small,.mw-parser-output .navbox .IPA-label-small{font-size:100%}pronounced [kalaːɬːit…
TIL the callers on Frasier were famous people, including Christopher Reeve, Eddy Van Halen, Ben Stiller, Elijah Woods, Timothy Leary, Hally Berry, John McEnroe and many more.
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Submitted September 03, 2024 at 02:46PM by beyondawesome
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List of Frasier characters
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TIL although Green Bay, Wisconsin is the smallest major league professional sports market in North America, the NFL's Green Bay Packers ranked as the world's 27th-most-valuable sports franchise in 2019, with a value of $2.63 billion.
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Green Bay Packers
The Green Bay Packers are a professional American football team based in Green Bay, Wisconsin. Competing in the National Football League (NFL) as part of the National Football Conference (NFC) North division, the Packers are the third-oldest franchise in…
TIL that the living component of an acre of soil, may include 900 lb of earthworms, 2400 lb of fungi, 1500 lb of bacteria, 133 lb of protozoa and 890 lb of arthropods and algae.
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Submitted September 03, 2024 at 03:42PM by IPeeFreely01
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Soil
Soil, also commonly referred to as earth or dirt, is a mixture of organic matter, minerals, gases, liquids, and organisms that together support the life of plants and soil organisms. Some scientific definitions distinguish dirt from soil by restricting the…
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TIL that stealing sand is the largest organized crime activity in India.
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Submitted September 03, 2024 at 06:17PM by Th3_Hegemon
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HowStuffWorks
Sand Is in Such High Demand, People Are Stealing Tons of It
As the world becomes more urbanized, the demand for sand, a key ingredient of concrete, keeps growing. But there's only so much sand to go around.
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TIL 71 year old Bernard Gore was supposed to meet his wife and daughter in a mall in Sydney after first doing a little shopping himself. Instead, he exited a mall door leading to a stairwell labyrinth and was found dead 3 weeks later failing to find his way out.
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Submitted September 03, 2024 at 08:16PM by WranglerVegetable512
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TIL that Stanley "Tookie" Williams, convicted murderer and founder of the LA Crips gang, became a children's author and 5x Nobel Peace Prize nominee while on Death Row. He was executed in 2005 after being denied clemency by California Gov Arnold Schwarzenegger.
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NPR
Death Row Inmate and Nobel Nominee Stanley Williams
Stanley "Tookie" Williams, a convicted murderer and co-founder of the notorious Crips street gang in Los Angeles, has been on California's death row since 1979. While in prison, he became a children's author and a Nobel Peace Prize nominee for his efforts…
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TIL that bird migration wasn’t proved until 1822. Before then, theories to explain their seasonal disappearance included hibernation and transforming into mice.
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Submitted September 03, 2024 at 08:37PM by bnrshrnkr
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Pfeilstorch
migrating stork with embedded arrow
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TIL During the Reformation, a knight named Hans von Hake asked Johann Tetzel to purchase an indulgence for a future sin. Tetzel sold Hake an indulgence for a future non-specific sin. Hake then ambushed, and robbed Johann Tetzel of all of his indulgence money.
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St. Nikolai church (Jüterbog)
church building in Jüterbog, Brandenburg state, Germany
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TIL Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, author of Sherlock Holmes, exonerated two innocent men by investigating their cases in his free time. This, in part, led to the establishment of England's criminal appeal system.
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Submitted September 03, 2024 at 08:30PM by Pfeffer_Prinz
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Arthur Conan Doyle
British writer and physician (1859–1930)
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TIL Arnold Schwarzenegger Pays $1 To Warner Bros Every Year For His Infamous Mr. Freeze Costume From Batman And Robin.
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Submitted September 03, 2024 at 11:54PM by Minifig81
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Arnold Schwarzenegger Pays $1 To Warner Bros Every Year After For His Infamous Mr. Freeze Costume From Batman And Robin
While it may have been one his most disappointing films, Arnold Schwarzenegger still owns the Mr. Freeze suit he wire in Batman and Robin.
TIL: The Tomb of Christ is a site in Japan where they claim Jesus was really buried. This is complete with a burial site, Hebrew plaque and an accompanying origin story (complete with Jesus using a body double) explaining his journey to and death in Japan.
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Submitted September 04, 2024 at 02:06AM by Taswelltoo
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Smithsonian Magazine
The Little-Known Legend of Jesus in Japan
A mountain hamlet in northern Japan claims Jesus Christ was buried there
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TIL that the landmark pamphlet "Understanding AIDS" was the single largest mass mailing in American history. Spearheaded by Surgeon General C. Everett Koop, it reached 107 million American households, and set standards for sex education regarding the disease. 80% of people read at least part of it.
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Understanding AIDS
pamphlet
TIL the current fastest Wifi band (6GHz) already transmits, but most people can't access it. As of 2023, tech giants such as Apple only have 2 phones that support it.
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Submitted September 04, 2024 at 02:31AM by sanandrios
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MacRumors
Does My iPhone or iPad Support Wi-Fi 6E?
Wi-Fi 6E, the latest advancement in Wi-Fi technology, offers several benefits when enabled on your iPhone or iPad. This article explains what Wi-Fi...
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TIL that English actor Charles Dance, who was born in 1946, had an older-half sister named Nora that was born in the 19th-century. This was because Charles’ father, Walter, was born in the 1870s.
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Submitted September 04, 2024 at 03:18AM by waitingforthesun92
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Charles Dance
English actor, screenwriter and director
TIL that earthworms have "completely scrambled" genomes, and belong to the taxonomic class Clitellata.
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Submitted September 04, 2024 at 05:19AM by infinitejones
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Science
Earthworms have ‘completely scrambled’ genomes. Did that enable their ancestors to leave the sea?
Chaotic rearrangements of chromosomes may have helped leeches swim into fresh water and other worms wriggle onto land
TIL that while Rocky won the Oscar for Best Picture and Best Director, Sylvester Stallone didn't win any Oscars for it even though he wrote it and starred in it
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Submitted September 04, 2024 at 05:41AM by JoeyZasaa
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Rocky
1976 film directed by John Avildsen
TIL Of the ten most watched Youtube videos, five are children's videos and five are pop song videos. Of the top thirty Youtube videos only one is not a children's or pop song video, it is a Hindu devotional song about the celibate deity called Hanuman
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Submitted September 04, 2024 at 06:01AM by Bluest_waters
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List of most-viewed YouTube videos
YouTube is an American video-sharing website headquartered in San Bruno, California. The site indicates view counts of each uploaded video, making it possible to keep track of the most viewed, many of which continue to exist while others are no longer available…
TIL that once when helping an Alaska Native whale hunter harvest whale blubber, a biologist found a harpoon tip in the blubber that was about 100 years old.
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Submitted September 04, 2024 at 05:48AM by TheStateOfAlaska
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Bowhead Whales May Be the World's Oldest Mammals | Geophysical Institute
While helping Alaska Native whale hunter Billy Adams cut sections of blubber from a bowhead whale, Biologist Craig George pressed his knife into a deep scar in the whale's skin.
TIL a band released blank album cover captioned “We had an album cover we wanted to use, but after getting dropped by our label we can no longer afford to use it. So instead you can stare at this blank square.”
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Submitted September 04, 2024 at 11:35AM by god_will_hunting
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Consequence
The Orwells quietly release new album less than a year after breakup
Last summer, after several members of The Orwells were accused of sexual misconduct. Now, they've quietly released a new album.
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