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TIL Nebraska has Admirals.

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KYLL6 TIL The dog that portrayed Spuds MacKenzie was a female bull terrier named Honey Tree Evil Eye.
MPo8 TIL a college student emailed Steve Jobs complaining that Apple’s Media department were not replying to her emails for help with a school project. Jobs responded to her by saying “Our goals do not include helping you get a good grade. Sorry” and “Please leave us alone.”
1vB4 TIL Near the end of WWII, after viewing films of Nazi concentration camps, many German prisoners in the U.S. formally burned their uniforms and volunteered to fight in the war against Japan.
BgMPe TIL that psychobilly pioneer Hasil Adkins had a tradition of mailing a copy of each single he released to the sitting president of the United States. In 1970 Richard Nixon wrote back, saying “I am very pleased by your thoughtfulness in bringing these particular selections to my attention.”
pYyj8 TIL: The Treaty of Dancing Rabbit Creek in 1831 allowed those Choctaw who chose to remain in Mississippi to become the first major non-European ethnic group to gain recognition as U.S. citizens.