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TIL in the real story of Mulan, when Mulan returns home, she finds her dad long dead, her mom remarried, and the emperor makes her his sex slave

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69E58 TIL the cruise ship MS Oasis of the Seas gets a gas mileage of 437 gallons per mile (gpm), or 12 feet per gallon
DQ1wg TIL that one of the winners of the VH1 Big Backyard BBQ contest in the 90's, Raymond Holcomb, who had muscular dystrophy, was hit with a tax bill of $2,496, because the $11,700 concert was seen by the IRS as "taxable income." John Mellencamp's management company agreed to work something out to help.
VMeBk TIL Thomas Jefferson sent a giant moose carcass to Paris to prove that America’s animals were bigger than Europe’s
9Y1MX TIL when a woman in Tokyo jumped into a river in an apparent suicide attempt, a group of Sumo wrestlers from the Sakaigawa-beya heya helped to pull the woman from the water; she had no life-threatening injuries. ("heya" literally means "room" but is normally translated in English as "stable").
o9mr TIL The publisher of Penthouse magazine started Omni magazine “to make science just as popular as naked ladies.”