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TIL Walmart is not allowed in NYC, but Target is

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Kp76 TIL the Illiad does not describe the sack of Troy nor the building of the Trojan Horse. Achilles is not killed by an arrow in his heel and the story ends with Hector’s funeral.
m1MRx TIL, after suffering a severe illness in 1776, Jemimika Wilson claimed to have died and been reanimated as a genderless evangelist named the Public Universal Friend, and afterward shunned both his birth name and gendered pronouns.
N7kNM TIL about the existence of Monkey Tail Beards and that there is a world record for largest gathering of people with them on their faces.
E1MoX TIL of the Pioneer Plaque, a pair of plaques sent on the Pioneer spacecrafts that included a naked man, a naked woman, and a diagram representing the origin of the spacecraft. The plaque was designed to transmit information to potential aliens who might intercept Pioneer 10 and 11.
aWwo TIL American flags made in China are banned in the U.S. Military.