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TIL that the children's book "Horton Hears a Who!" by Dr. Seuss is an allegory for the American occupation of Japan following the Second World War

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x6Po7 TIL of a condition called Chimerism (from the Greek mythology monster - Chimera) in which a person can have two types of DNA.
awYeA TIL that Diogenes "the Cynic" of Sinope, a controversial Greek philosopher, responded to Zeno's paradoxes on the impossibility of physical motion by getting up and walking away.
ADJ7x TIL The same General Sherman who brought total war to the South in the American Civil War also created and carried out the plans to kill the Great Plains buffalo and destroy the Native American Midwestern tribes.
JYEV1 TIL that mascara got its start with coal dust and vaseline. In the early 1900's, Thomas Lyle Williams noticed his sister Mabel applying a substance after a cooking accident singed her eyebrows and lashes. In her "original formula," Mabel burned a cork and mixed the ashes with Vaseline.
X0mZ6 TIL about Comstock laws. This Act criminalized any use of the U.S. Postal Service to send any of the following items:[2] obscenity, contraceptives, abortifacients, sex toys, personal letters with any sexual content or information.