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TIL museums have more than a half million Native American skeletons in their collections

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d0XQ TIL Shaquille O’Neal poses as a minor to catch sexual predators over the internet.
9YaP7 TIL that Soviet snipers Mariya Polivanova and Natalya Kovshova, when low on ammunition and surrounded by German soldiers, the two kissed and detonated the last of their grenades, killing themselves and many nearby German soldiers.
OX5R TIL that one of the first things free blacks could grow, eat, and sell were watermelons. It became a symbol of freedom that was corrupted into a negative stereotype by southern whites and still persists today.
l7ByK TIL that Michelin once accidentally gave a Michelin star to a small cafe which shared the same name as the actual recipient
EXWW TIL King Charles VI of France suffered from glass delusions, a psychiatric phenomenon in which people believe they’re made of glass. Charles VI refused to let people touch him and wore reinforced clothing to protect himself from accidental “shattering.”