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TIL The destruction of the buffalo population was a result of US policy to starve Native Americans

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GbjE TIL that it wasn’t until 380,000 years after the Big Bang that the universe became transparent enough to let light shine through it.
7ogM TIL that SOS doesn’t mean “save our ship” or “save our souls.” SOS doesn’t actually stand for anything at all and is used simply because of how easy it is to remember.
KjDG TIL That NATO must treat any attack on an ally’s soil as if it were their own, unless it’s Hawaii.
dY9E TIL: If Britain were a U.S. state, it would be the second-poorest, behind Alabama and before Mississippi
b9J7N TIL that Flossie Wong-Staal was the first researcher to clone HIV. She also completed genetic mapping of the virus which made it possible to develop HIV tests.