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TIL Cottons are related to Okras.

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xVAXb TIL up until 1857, the Mexican Peso was legal tender in the United States.
OGYw1 TIL that most non-human primate infants actively use their hands to help themselves out of the birth canal. Human infants do not, but their grip strength is much higher during the hours immediately after they are born.
a8vZ0 TIL the USA, Canada and Mexico each have one of the top three tallest mountains in North America, respectively.
8aAY4 TIL In 1972, Neil Armstrong visited the town of Langholm, Scotland. In which he was read a 400 year old law declaring any Armstrong caught in the town should be hanged
jNYwN TIL Mulan is very likely not ethnically Han. The story is set in the Northern Wei dynasty whose language was Tuoba, an extinct language that had mongolic and Turkic elements. She is believed to be of XianBei ethnicity, a nomadic people that once resided in the Eastern Eurasian Steppes.