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TIL that in 2002, Kenyan Masai tribespeople donated 14 cows to to the U.S. to help with the aftermath of 9/11.

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xx97 TIL 500,000 baseball bats were sold in Russia last year. Only one pair of batting gloves were purchased.
gMNR8 TIL The German candy "Werther's Original", was purposefully marketed in the 1990s as being a candy that grandparents would give to their grandchildren.
m1Oly TIL that Hamida al-Attas, Osama Bin Laden's mother, was just 14 years old at the time when she became Mohammed bin Awad bin Laden's (48 years old) concubine before she was impregnated and married off to Mohammed Bin Laden's business associate, Mohammed al-Attas.
dDMMd TIL of the Gansu ultramarathon disaster, a 62-mile race in which 21 runners lost their lives
DoAP TIL in the Middle Ages and Renaissance, the color of clothing showed a person’s social rank and profession. Red could only be worn by the nobility, brown and gray by peasants, and green by merchants, bankers and the gentry and their families