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TIL that after Christopher Columbus' third trip to Hispaniola, he was imprisoned for his mistreatment of the native population

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1XW TIL A dedicated Star Wars fan Is painstakingly restoring the star wars movies Without all the special edition crap!
E1WoW TIL of Çatalhöyük, which is considered to be the first human settlement. One of it's features is that it was entirely built undergroundm with no actual streets - the citizens would travel on the rooftops and enter the houses from the roof.
odPr TIL Forbes Has Estimated That Smaug From The Hobbit, Was Worth 8.6 Billion Dollars. Putting Him 7th On Their Fictional 15 List.
5YPWQ TIL of "Cat Pawsitive," a program which encourages cat shelters to teach orphan cats to do a "high-five" with humans, making cats more attractive for adoption. Over 400 cats who participated were adopted during the first two semesters of the program.
QNZV9 TIL about Marina Abramović, a Serbian performance artist who, in 1974, created an art piece called Rhythm 0. In this piece, she placed 72 objects on a table that ranged from a feather, scissors and a gun with a single bullet. She then allowed the audience to do whatever they wanted for 6 hours.