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TIL that cotton candy was invented by a dentist

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Ood7L TIL while filming a 170 foot waterfall in the movie Apocalypto, a cow was trying to cross upstream and went over the falls. It emerged at bottom, banging against the rocks, but after a local man swam in to calm the cow it then climbed up the bank and began eating grass as if nothing had happened.
P11XL TIL there was an epidemic of bubonic plague in San Francisco in the early 20th century, but denial by city and state government, and racism, caused people to focus on Chinatown residents
xVwo TIL that Prince recalled an album days before it’s release because he had a bad MDMA experience and thought the record was evil.
MeNKb TIL that the passenger trains between the german city Puttgarden and danish city Rødby take the ferry to get from one side to the other
a4oL TIL the story of Aladdin has no Arab source, was written by a Frenchman and takes places in a Chinese town and Aladdin is explicitly Chinese.