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TIL that it would take ~18months to walk the Great Wall of China 🇨🇳

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vP7 TIL that Neil Gaiman wanted to make a movie of “Anansi Boys”, but the moviemakers wanted to change the black characters to white and remove any magic (in a story about Gods and magic), so he refused.
b5Ea TIL that in the elections for mayor of Rio de Janeiro in 1988 the population was so unhappy with politicians, that a well-known monkey of the local zoo received over 400k votes.
9nAB TIL: Mussolini’s granddaughter is part of the Italian Senate and did a photoshoot for playboy.
D1E6Y TIL - Battle of Machias was an early naval engagement of the American Revolutionary War a small town militia captured an armed sloop and two merchant ships. Two years later the British tried it again with 1,000 men but were beaten off.
LkMkQ TIL that Snapchat trolled Facebook on April Fool's day with a 'Facebook' filter, designed to recreate Russian bots on Facebook deployed during 2016 US Presidential election. The filter placed a Facebook UI around the photo with Cyrillic script-like text and showed likes from “your mum” and “a bot”.