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TIL Americanism is a Catholic heresy

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D1lwY TIL of the California Genocide, an oft-forgotten event in U.S. history due to occurring at the same time at the California Gold Rush. The Native American population of California decreased from as many as 150,000 in 1848 to 30,000 in 1870. Tribes such as the Yahi were hunted to extinction.
Wvm4 TIL in Japan, the shutter sound of iPhone cameras cannot be switched off–even in silent mode–because the Japanese are so afraid of perverts taking upskirts in the subways
b6k0N TIL, the island state of Tasmania, shares a 85m long land boarder with the state of Victoria (part of the Australian mainland) due to a surveying error
No6 TIL: John Stapp withstood 46.2 G forces in 1947, the most any human has ever been subject to and survive.
8a0pZ TIL The Berlin Wall was not the border between East and West Germany. The City of Berlin was in the middle of East Germany but had several zones controlled by the Western Allies.