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TIL Disney World has the power to establish schools, form their own criminal justice system and construct a nuclear power plant, although they have not chosen to do that yet.

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pZde TIL an Indian man named Jadav Payeng started planting trees on a barren sandbar at 17. He is now 47 and lives in his own 1360 acre forest which now houses rhinos, tigers, deers, apes and elephants.
Y7Wrv TIL a deity symbolizing love and beauty was distorted into a demon after a century. In the 2nd century AD, Hadrian deified his lover Antinous and demanded that everyone worship this deity. However, in Egypt, people found that a 3rd-century man named Sarapammon was summoning Antinous as a demon.
lRwV TIL that during WW2 Peru deported its entire Japanese ethnic population to the US to live in the Camps
nW6x7 TIL that the university of vermont hosted ice bowling in their stadium. it had rubber balls, hockey masks, and slippery floors
7reYM TIL the ancient myths of Australian Aborigines portray the formation of geographical features in Australia, dating to 10,000 BC, with striking accuracy. The myths corroborate modern geological evidence, indicating they originated as firsthand accounts, preserved for millennia.