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TIL of of Chloe Phillips-Harris, who was denied access to Kazakhstan in 2016 under the guise that New Zealand did not exist because the map in the detention room did not include it

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neQ7 TIL in 1912 Teddy Roosevelt Split from the Republican Party and ran on a platform calling for a National Heath Service along with an End to the “… the unholy alliance between corrupt business and corrupt politics [of both parties]…”
peOO TIL in 1933, a Japanese School Girl committed suicide by jumping into a volcanic crater on the island of Oshima. This act started a bizarre trend in Japan, and in the following year 944 other people (804 men and 140 women) leapt into the same crater.
9wPdM TIL that cats have hundreds of tiny 'mini claws' or 'hooks' called papillae on their tongue made out of keratin. This is the same stuff their claws are made from and that's why a cats tongue feels so rough.
aw6gb TIL: That if the entire human race lived as densely as Manhattan, they would fit in the country of New Zealand...Roughly the same size as the state of Colorado.
78poZ TIL that the first person ever diagnosed with autism is still alive