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TIL that the German equivalent of Renaissance Faires is "Indianer Camps". Germans meticulously re-create the Wild West and dress up as Native Americans and cowboys.

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G5kQ TIL that Navy Seals who carried out the Bin Laden kill mission, forgot to bring a tape measure and had to measure Laden’s height by making a six feet tall Seal lie down next to Laden’s corpse.
xlg5 TIL JFK purchased 1200 Cuban cigars before signing the trade embargo 51 years ago
rY4W TIL researchers printed out a beating mouse heart using a modified printer with cells in the ink cartridge.
rNo1 TIL that 99% of all puppies sold at pet stores come from puppy mills.
neO4o TIL thieves stole a radiotherapy unit from an abandoned hospital and sold it for scrap. The caesium unit was opened and admired for its mysterious blue glow. Hundreds fell ill and 4 people died of radiation poisoning.