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TIL when Spanish missionary Francis Xavier arrived in Japan. The local Japanese people initially assumed that the he was buddhist monk from India and that Christianity was a new Buddhism sect.

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kOoDd TIL while working at a railway, Richard Sears' station received a shipment of gold watches but the jeweler refused the shipment. Sears got the watches at a reduced rate (a common scam) and sold them to his coworkers who needed to keep accurate time. The success lead to his first mail-order catalog.
7dEb TIL: That Indian American have the top median household income of in America at $101,591, followed by Taiwanese Americans at $85,566 (on the other hand, Native Americans have a median household income of $37,227).
6ERrY TIL in 2007, the Oklahoma State Senate passed a bill declaring the watermelon as the official state vegetable.
J1JBV TIL There is a misconception that elephants think people look cute and harmless. Elephants have produced an evolutionary hard wiring that causes them to treat humans the way that they would other big predators, like lions
RAlj TIL that Osama Bin Laden cost United States taxpayers over $3 trillion dollars over the 15 years leading up to his death.