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TIL there were concentration camps in 1838 in the United States

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OWr6 TIL the British law for Treason was created in 1351, is written in Medieval French and remains unchanged to this day.
BGKD TIL astronomers polished a 25-meter mirror for the Great Magellan Telescope so smooth that the largest bump is .0003 times the width of a human hair
0dgxy TIL that circumstantial evidence is equally as valid as direct evidence. Fingerprints, DNA, or videos which help infer that a crime took place are circumstantial evidence, while direct evidence such as an eyewitness seeing someone commit the crime can sometimes be unreliable
b66Ea TIL The 1836 Independent Republic of Texas included land as far north as what is now Wyoming.
x67XB TIL that during the construction of the Very Large Array radio telescope in New Mexico workers found a human skeleton. It was later identified as the body of a passenger that had been ejected from a passenger aircraft that had experienced decompression during an engine failure.