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N784N TIL about Genna, a traditional Ethiopian sport similar to field hockey, played on a cow field without removing the cows. The goals are sometimes miles apart.
wojAY TIL In 1998, Hyundai founder Chung Ju-yung sent 1001 cattle as a symbol of positive progress from South Korea to North Korea as humanitarian aid during a famine to promote peace and strengthen economic cooperation between the two countries. Sadly, many of them didn't survive the first winter season.
QJQ19 TIL Viggo Mortensen is now the same age as Ian McKellen was when he was cast as Gandalf in LOTR.
VLZZ TIL that lawyers and attorneys are different; lawyers study law whereas attorneys practice it.
l7ap1 TIL that the President of Nintendo America is actually named Bowser