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TIL in 2013, female stockings covered in fake male hair became a fashion hit in China as a way to deter unwanted male attention.

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WPy8 TIL there was a black african samurai called Yasuke that served warlord Oda Nobunaga. He was the first foreign samurai and the inspiration for the main character in Afro Samurai.
4yKo TIL a man named Ratanlal Maloo, created an artificial sanctuary for the migratory Demoiselle Cranes in Rajasthan, India by feeding them every year over a span of 40 years. Their numbers increased from 80, 40 years ago, to 15000 in 2011.
wLL6M TIL that Nelsan Ellis, who played Martin Luther King Jr. in Lee Daniels' The Butler, died in 2017 at 39, the same age as Martin Luther King Jr.
ZppbB TIL when an electrocuted human gets launched across a room, it is not from the current itself, but rather our muscles contracting all at once from the current.
ZKoB TIL: One of the most prolific serial killers of the 20th century, accused of killing more than 300 young girls, was freed from prison after 14 years for good behavior.