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TIL that the Emperors of Japan are considered to be direct descendants of the sun goddess Amaterasu

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e0jOn TIL the world's only Bigfoot trap is located in the Siskiyou National Forest in the southern part of Jackson County, Oregon, a few miles from the California state border. It was designed to capture a Bigfoot (or Sasquatch), the legendary hominid
ZOjB TIL that Bill Watterson, the creator of “Calvin and Hobbes” came off a 20 year hiatus from drawing comics to illustrate 3 comics for “Pearls Before Swine.” The originals went on to sell for $74,090 for Parkinson’s disease.
dPd TIL Six states in America have a “State Dinosaur”
plMb TIL of McRefugees, people who use McDonald’s ‘doors always open policy’ and 'live’ in McDonald’s restaurants due to the high living costs in Hong Kong and Japan.
mx7rR TIL that when Native Americans occupied Alcatraz Island in 1969, they offered to buy the island from the US government for $24 in glass beads and cloth, the price allegedly paid to Native Americans for Manhattan Island in the 17th century.