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TIL Star Wars was released in the Navajo Language, the first motion picture to be translated into a Native American language

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RAaQ TIL the dates from 5th october 1582 to 15th october 1582 don’t exist due to the change from Julian calendar to Gregorian calendar in most of Europe
0X0R TIL A few weeks before the Kennedy assassination, Lee Harvey Oswald was photographed and followed in Mexico City. He’s quoted as saying that he plans on killing Kennedy. This information was passed along to the FBI by the head of the American Communist party.
BAPe TIL Davy Crockett, as a Congressman in the the U.S. House of Representatives, opposed President Andrew Jackson’s 1830 Indian Removal Act and was the only member of the Tennessee delegation to vote against it. Six years later he died defending the Alamo.
16ZD TIL that the Lone Ranger is the Green Hornet’s Uncle
j6y0M TIL there is a semi-secret club in the United States for male aviators. Founded in 1919 it now has 277 "hangers" across the country. Notable members include Astronaut Buzz Aldrin, Charles Lindbergh, helicopter designer Igor Sikorsky, WW II Raider Jimmy Doolittle and WW I ace Eddie Rickenbacker.