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TIL that people used to believe geese grew on trees

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DQVOp TIL Selena Gomez became a billionaire in 2024 thanks to her make-up company
x6NPk TIL the most effective surrender leaflet in WW2 was known as the "Passierschein". It was designed to appeal to German sensibilities for official, fancy documents printed on nice paper with official seals and signatures. It promised safe passage and generous treatment to any who presented it.
yrgw TIL that in 1977 a Caucasian woman found out she was designated in her birth certificate to be “Colored” in the state of Louisiana because her great-great-great-great grandmother was an enslaved African woman; she had 3/32 Negro blood in her and State Law declared anyone with 1/32 Negro blood, Negro
e0L5n TIL that President Jefferson partly organized the Lewis & Clark expedition because he believed that there were still mastodons wandering wild in the Western US.
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