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TIL that Montana is the only US state constitutionally mandated to teach and preserve Native American history and culture.

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6OWw TIL that Joseph Stalin was only 5'3" (163 cm) in height.
R7Eyw TIL in 1879 it was estimated the Oxford English Dictionary to take 10 years for completion, but in five years they'd only reached the word "Ant". After crowdsourcing readers to help it was completed 44 years later. The publishers now estimate it would take a single person 120 years to just type it.
GAmDG TIL There were plans for a sequel to Beverly Hills Ninja with David Hasselhoff replacing the late Chris Farley
awEbN TIL a Louis XIV naval shipyard built a 40 canon vessel in 7 hours only, on 13 July 1679
6pr8 TIL that payed, a common misspelling of paid, is an actual word that means an act of sealing the deck or seams of wooden ships with pitch to prevent water leakage. This makes it an atomic typo(link in comments)