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TIL the Comanche code word for Adolf Hitler (used by the Code Talkers during WWII) was “crazy white man.”

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D16pP TIL Riding shotgun was a Wild West expression used for the person who rides next to the driver of a stagecoach for protection against bandits.
lo5Gr TIL 95 species of frog have group sex where the males turn bright yellow
PYYgL TIL there's a church dedicated to weed
W7QvN TIL that upon Harry Houdini's death, his magic equipment was inherited by his brother Theodore on the condition that it be "burned and destroyed" upon Theodore's death. Instead, the equipment ended up in the Houdini Magical Hall of Fame, a museum which burnt down in 1995.
pkYZ TIL That in 1975 $10 million worth of Huey helicopters had to be pushed off the flight deck of the USS Midway and into the sea to make way for the emergency landing of an aircraft with Vietnamese evacuees on board