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TIL that following the attacks on 9/11, a Masai tribe in Kenya offered 14 cows as an aid gift to the United States.

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wLpX7 TIL that the female equivalent of "dude" is "dudette" or "dudess".
gMxrW TIL in 2017, a Norwegian newspaper called biathlon expert Ola Lunde (a very common name in Norway) to ask his opinion on the national team coach. It made headlines when Lunde rashly said the coach wasn't good enough and had to be fired. The only problem was that this Ola Lunde was an ordinary fan.
yVvew TIL that, during the 1950s, Las Vegas earned the nickname "Atomic City" for becoming a hotspot where tourists would gather to watch above-ground nuclear weapons tests taking place at Nevada Test Site
N7MOb TIL levels of oxytocin (the trust hormone) are boosted in both the human and the dog when both make eye contact
N4O8 TIL that 8 to 16 percent of humans are missing the Palmaris longus muscle which was once used for climbing.