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TIL Confederates emigrated (in the largest exodus in US history) to Brazil, where they remain to this day. Their Brazilian descendants eat peaches, wear hoop skirts, and sing “Dixie”.

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9wnED TIL: Saudi Arabia produced a school textbook in which Yoda was superimposed on a photo of the late King Faisal.
akxy TIL There is an international zipline between Spain and Portugal.
1aJJP TIL that green eyes are the rarest colored eyes in the world with only 2% of the world’s population having green eyes.
xVxQg TIL 75% of mammoth fossils are male, because "male mammoths—young, reckless, foolhardy—were just more likely to get into some kind of trouble and die, from getting stuck in a pit to running afoul of hunting humans." The tar pits, bogs, crevices, and lakes preserved remains well.
AN9E7 TIL that during World War 2, a Great Dane named Juliana won the blue cross medal twice. The first time she was awarded with it was due to her disarming an incendiary bomb by urinating on it.