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TIL that horses can be cloned and get cloned often.

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rNlPo TIL of the "Hippy Trail" when thousands of western hippies traveled the Silk Road by bus, car, van, motorcycle, or hitch hiking, mingling with locals in Afghanistan (and the entire Silk Road) in the 1960s-70s, officially ending in 1979 when the Afghanistan war started
GAGWG TIL that the Chinese economic reform was traced to an agreement of farmers in a small village in Eastern China
D1W1D TIL that between WW1 & WW2 the USA had a war plan in place for invading Canada in fears the British Empire would try to invade the USA through their colonies. War plan red was even updated to authorise the use of chemical weapons against Canadian citizens.
GpZG TIL that in Japan, a man was murdered, drained of all of his blood, cut into 1cm slices, and left in a trash can in the Inokashira Park. The murder was never solved.
VJ8m TIL Neapolitan Ice cream was originally made to resemble the Italian Flag (green (pistachio or almond), white (vanilla), and red (cherry))