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TIL the Taj Mahal was covered with a huge scaffold during WW2 to make it look like a stockpile of Bamboo and misguide any enemy bombers. (It was also disguised again in 1971!)

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RrBj TIL Eminem wrote a song where he rhymed 4 different phrases with the term “orange juice”
EggP0 TIL that during The Great Migration, Detroit's African American population increased 2000% in just 19 years (1910-1929)
epPZL TIL You shouldn't use hot top water to drink or cook with, as it it much more likely to contain greater amounts of lead
pdae TIL there is a group of women who were the last to be born into China’s foot binding culture, residing in a small village in the Yunnan province. In their 80’s and 90’s, they tell their stories so we will not forget them.
awoLb TIL alligators are scared of humans and it's usually safe to swim in most alligator infested waters. A 2010 report tallied all the reported alligator attacks over the 81 years from 1928 to 2009. It found there were only 24 deaths from alligators in the United States, most of them in Florida.