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TIL the Denver International Airport is larger than Manhattan, operating on 53 square miles of land.

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OoMvX TIL Zebras are black with white stripes. It was previously believed that zebras were white animals with black stripes, since some zebras have white underbellies. Embryological evidence, however, shows that the animal's background color is black and the white stripes and bellies are additions.
Mgoa TIL in 1777 a Yorkshireman earned 2 guineas at his local fair for eating an entire live cat in 15 minutes.
Egxv7 TIL that cousin marriage is more like "a norm" than a "taboo/exception" and only half of the US states ban it.
m1LdM TIL that in the Victorian era, many people took photos with their dead relatives
dNOE TIL that before the Columbian Exchange, there were no oranges in Florida, no bananas in Ecuador, no potatoes in Ireland, no coffee in Colombia, no pineapples in Hawaii, no rubber trees in Africa, no chili peppers in Thailand, no tomatoes in Italy, and no chocolate in Switzerland.