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TIL: The United States top export to China is Garbage

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Vp6k TIL that after a reclusive man named Henry Darger died, his 15,145 page fantasy manuscript was discovered, along with several hundred drawings and watercolor paintings illustrating the story. All the unclothed girls had penises.
7pr7 TIL Jackie Chan used to carry multiple guns and even a grenade to protect himself and other artists from the triad in the 80s and 90s
Jxnm TIL the Queen’s coronation dress had emblems of an English Tudor rose, a Scots thistle, a Welsh leek, an Irish shamrock, an Australian wattle, a Canadian maple leaf, a New Zealand fern, South Africa’s protea, an Indian pearly lotus, an Ceylonese opalescent lotus and Pakistan’s wheat, cotton and jute
6VZ TIL Elizabeth Taylor suffered from a rare genetic mutation, distichiasis, that resulted in double rows of eyelashes and that usually has horrible complications.
K5ew TIL: considering the natural process of bone properties, development & growth, it’s fundamentally possible for animals to evolve metal skeletons.