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9wpOp TIL: Rabbits Can't Vomit
nmnr TIL Pocahontas’ marriage to John Rolfe was considered the first interracial marriage in American history.
pY6pG TIL that James Doohan, the actor who played Scotty on Star Trek, came up with the sound and tone of the Klingon Language for Star Trek The Motion Picture. A linguist, Marc Okrand, later used those lines created by Doohan to turn it into an actual language.
D1pgP TIL in the early 1920s, the KKK was very active in Chicago with 50,000 members in the city, the largest of any metropolitan area in the U.S. The group was driven from the city in 1925, when a Catholic organization, American Unity League, printed names, addresses, and occupations of Chicago Klansmen.
yQ6Jw TIL of the Pamir, the last commercial sailing ship, operated until 1957