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TIL Converse Sneakers have felt on the bottom because that classifies them as slippers, which have a lower tariff.

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OGoY6 TIL An Lushan, a 8th century Tang dynasty general who rebelled against the dynasty, was a Caucasian guy with colored hair and eyes (Persian nomadic ethnicity in central Asia). 13 million people died as an aftermath of the rebellion and war
LQBWZ TIL that Nobel Prize laureate Harald zur Hausen, renowned for linking HPV to cervical cancer, devoted his later years to exploring a similar connection between animal product consumption and colon cancer until his passing in 2023.
KYDL9 TIL that the German equivalent of Renaissance Faires is "Indianer Camps". Germans meticulously re-create the Wild West and dress up as Native Americans and cowboys.
j5JE TIL there’s a town in Brazil made of women. Sons are sent away at 18 and husbands are only allowed to visit on weekends.
x6bYw TIL that Dr. Evan O'Neill Kane, who had removed his own appendix, was the first surgeon to bring music into the operating room