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TIL After hearing about the 9/11 attacks, the Maasai tribe in Kenya gave 14 cows to America as consolation. Which is actually a lot, knowing that the only asset they have are their cows.

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grOO9 TIL Mountain Dew was originally invented in the 1940s to be mixed with (often homemade) whiskey
v1n8R TIL about the swiss battle tank Panzer 68: using the radio at full power would lead to erratic movements of the turret and switching on the heating system could fire the main gun
D1rp TIL that in 2006, two women named Madeleine Mores (who claimed to have never met each other) both claimed to have the same identity along w/ corroborating birth certificates and govt documentation. When presented with a photograph of them together from the 1940’s, neither remembered it being taken.
LkV8v TIL In 2008, a 12-year-old boy in Florida was arrested for excessive farting in school
VVjm TIL : In 1976 Shavarsh Karapetyan , an Armenian ten-time finswimming World Record-breaker. Saved 20 people from the bottom of an ice cold river when a trolleybus fell down of a dam wall.