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TIL Ohio has a native species of cactus
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TIL the Anji Bridge survived 8 wars, 10 major floods, numerous earthquakes, including a recent 7.2 magnitude quake. It is also the oldest surviving stone-arch bridge in the world.
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TIL Alan Turing's father was in the Indian Civil Service and his mother was the daughter of the chief engineer of Madras Railways. Alan's parents met and married in India, although he was born in the UK.
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TIL In 1978, two Monty Python comedians shot a scene dressed up as John Lennon and Paul McCartney and then tourists, thinking they were the Beatles, asked for their autographs, while the actual George Harrison, who they didn’t recognize, stood nearby laughing his ass off.
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TIL There is a “white man” café in Tokyo, where Japanese ladies ring a bell to summon tuxedo-wearing caucasians who respond with “yes, princess?” and serve them cake.
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TIL that much of the sound you hear on sports on TV is actually fake and that for example the sounds you hear in horse racing TV coverage is really sampled from a slowed-down buffalo charge.