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TIL it was illegal for black people to move to Oregon until 1926.

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Wke4X TIL a prominent critic of Freud's theory that all behavior stems from repressed sexual passions was a German psychoanalyst named Karen Horney.
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d6j8 TIL that Irene Triplett, an 84-year-old woman in North Carolina, still collects a monthly Civil War pension of $73.13 from the Department of Veterans Affairs. She is the last child of any Civil War veteran still on the VA benefits rolls.
Zo7B TIL that in World War Two, Finnish soldiers were told to “fire low”, as their rifles would often jerk upwards when fired. Accordingly, their battle cry was changed to “Tulta munille!” loosely translated as, “Fire at their balls!”
ner8P TIL In the USA, we vote on Tuesdays because farmers often needed a full day to travel by horse-drawn vehicles to the county seat to vote. Tuesday was established as election day because it did not interfere with the Biblical Sabbath or with market day, which was on Wednesday in many towns.