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TIL that Cowboys didn’t actually wear cowboy hats. ????????????

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XXaP TIL L. Ron Hubbard believed so strongly that he had been Cecil Rhodes in a previous life that in 1966 he travelled to Rhodesia to recover the huge amounts of gold and diamonds he had stashed away in this previous life. Declared an unwanted persons, he was deported and lost $200,000 on the expedition
R7vwa TIL there is a sequel to Stanley Kubrick's '2001: A Space Odyssey' - '2010: The Year We Make Contact' was released 14 years after the first movie, and is based on Arthur C Clarke's sequel to the short story which inspired Kubrick's film.
0l5R TIL During the second world war a Soviet pilot was shot down while returning from a reconnaissance misson and hid in the nearby woods, When a German fighter pilot landed nearby to investigate, the soviet pilot rushed out, stole the Germans plane, and flew home.
e09rg TIL of the Flower wars, ritualistic wars fought between the Aztec Empire and neighboring states. Armies would meet at an agreed time and place and fight using only melee weapons. The (probable) purpose was to use the losers for human sacrifices.
yx78 TIL that the Masaai people of Kenya donated fourteen cows to the US after 9/11.