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TIL the Masai Tribe in Kenya donated 14 cows to the US after 9/11. “The handkerchief we give to people to wipe their tears with is a cow,” they said.

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aw9RJ TIL Canada's new 10-dollar note features Viola Desmond, a black woman and civil rights activist from Nova Scotia. She is known as Canada's Rosa Parks for her refusal to leave a whites-only section of a theatre.
PYNAw TIL that the Liberty Bell and Big Ben were made by the same company.
l7exB TIL that a juvenile orca started a fashion trend of wearing dead salmon as a hat and the whole group started wearing them.
wxY TIL in 1916, an elephant named Mary was hanged in TN for the murder of her trainer.
N7aE6 TIL Roman soldiers captured a group of gothic women who were masquerading as male soldiers around 3rd century AD. The women were paraded through the streets of Rome with signs that mockingly labeled them “Amazons”.