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TIL clothes can be “unshrinked”
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TIL When Tiger Woods father passed away, a Green Beret, Tiger became so obsessed with Navy Seals he regularly trained with them at their facilities. His team staged an intervention to avoid him quitting Golf and enlisting.
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TIL that tamales were once as popular across America as hamburgers and hotdogs. And the height of their popularity was known as The Tamale Wars, as vendors at times were so competitive that it caused murders, riots, and shoot outs.
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TIL Many people at Disney didn’t think The Lion King would be a success. It is the highest-grossing hand-drawn film in history.
BOer
TIL the word ‘daisy’ comes from the Old English for 'day’s eye’, as a daisy opens its petals during the day and closes them again at night.
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TIL that Uzbekistan has the 6th largest Korean population outside of Korea (~174,000), mainly due to mass deportations of ethnic Koreans (among others) in the USSR to Central Asia in the 1930s (during which up to 25% died).