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TIL the original story of Aladdin was based in China, was not an actual Arabian Night folk tale and was considered controversial for multiple reasons

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yVkaX TIL about "the Pantanal", a tropical wetland area that is the world's largest flooded grasslands (located on the border of Brazil, Bolivia, and Paraguay)
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rRpB0 TIL in 1956, the first modern American mall opened-- the Southdale Shopping Center in Edina, Minnesota. Upon touring, architect Frank Lloyd Wright criticized it "had all the evils of the village street and none of its charm... You should have left downtown downtown." History proved Wright wrong.