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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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AdX7 TIL that during the 2015 Paris attacks the German National Soccer Team couldn’t go back to their hotel and as a result had to sleep on mattresses and as a sign of solidarity the French National Team slept with them in the stadium.