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TIL that Mark-Paul Gosselaar is half Indonesian

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bkX7 TIL in Japanese folklore, Otters were considered very dangerous as they would shapeshift into beautiful women or little children and kill men.
yWOl TIL the highest paid woman CEO in America was born a man
W775B TIL that the Capitol was designed to have George Washington's tomb on public display. Both houses passed bills saying he should be buried there, and his wife consented, but due to various delays it took until 1830 for it to be viable. After an attempted theft of his head, the project was cancelled.
KOD94 TIL there are no such thing as true wild horses any more. The Western US has a population of free-roaming horses that are descendants of domesticated Colonial Spanish horses and are thus technically feral not wild.
woON6 TIL - The average person unknowingly eats a surprisingly high number of bugs each year! According to the United States Department of Agriculture, the average person consumes up to one and a half pounds of insects annually through fruits and vegetables. That amounts to about 440 to 660 bugs per year!