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TIL the Confederacy had large support of Native Americans due to mutual distrust of the Federal Government and use of slavery. They mandated native representation and native sovereignty.

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XNX8 TIl Forensic Lip Readers have analyzed silent footage from World War 1 and were able to reconstruct conversations that were previously thought to be lost in time.
69Rem TIL about Mark Gleeson, a 26 year-old man who attempted to cure his snoring by pushing tampons up his nose, resulting in his death by suffocation while sleeping.
69L1X TIL that unlike dogs, wolves, jackals and coyotes, foxes cannot interbreed with other canids.
yQkJp TIL of "White Friday"; during World War 1 in Italy an avalanche struck an army barracks killing 270 soldiers. Both Italian and Austrian sides then deliberately fired shells into the weakened snowpacks in an attempt to bury the other side. 10,000 people were killed altogether.
VMLn4 TIL the Spanish Flu got its name during WWI. No one fighting in the war wanted to admit that thousands of their troops were dying to some fast spreading disease. However, Spain was neutral, so they reported on it, making people think they were the source.