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TIL There’s a $75k surgery to make you taller (info in comments)

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BgoLe TIL that the Six Chinese survivors of the Titanic disaster were expelled from the United States within 24 hours of their arrival, due to the Chinese Exclusion Act which was in force between 1882 and 1943
nlj9 TIL domestic cats stop meowing to communicate with other cats upon reaching adulthood, and only meow to communicate to their human
Z51v TIL that on April Fools Day in 1989, billionaire Richard Branson designed a hot air balloon to look like a UFO, and hired a dwarf in an E.T. costume to come out and scare whoever was near it when it landed.
W7E9 TIL Ayn Rand was buried with a 6-foot tall floral arrangement in the shape of a dollar sign on her casket.
4QNw TIL that the saxophone was invented only in 1846 by Adolphe Sax. As a child, he survived a three-story fall, a gunpowder explosion, drinking a bowl of sulfuric water, a near-poisoning due to furniture varnish, and falling into a speeding river. His neighbors called him “little Sax, the ghost.”