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TIL that the Masaai people of Kenya donated fourteen cows to the US after 9/11.

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Zm64 TIL there exists a disorienting neurological condition called “Alice in Wonderland Syndrome”, whereby sufferers experience visual hallucinations of seeing things and people as smaller or larger than they actually are (“Lilliputian”).
ep5d4 TIL Before the Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882, Congress Passed a Similar Bill Called the Page Law of 1875 that Bans "Unfree Laborers and Women for Immoral Purposes"
MQ0 TIL there is a museum dedicated specifically to bad art.
5Yp8R TIL that in 1984, Disney was almost bought by MCA, the then-parent company of Universal, with the deal only falling through because of Disney’s insistence that Ron Miller, the Disney CEO at the time, be MCA president.
78MMO TIL that the term Bushwacker describes a form of guerrilla warfare common during the American Revolutionary War, War of 1812, American Civil War.