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TIL the Masai Tribe in Africa donated 14 cows to the United States after 9/11

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14PO TIL the blanket octopus is known to rip off the venomous tentacles of the Portuguese man o’ war to use them as weapons
PYWlE TIL the saying “once in a blue moon” refers to a real measurement of time.
4QdR TIL Dolphins deliberately chew on pufferfish to get high
1a50O TIL in 2017 a Qatar Airways plane had to make an emergency landing after a woman used her sleeping husband's thumb to unlock his phone and discovered he was cheating on her.
OoOWY TIL that in 1969, the Penn Central Railroad Co. planned to build a tower on top of Grand Central which would have required removal of a portion of the station's facade. The NYC Landmark Preservation Commission rejected the design, leading to a landmark Supreme Court "takings-clause"case in 1978.