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TIL Bob Barker is part Sioux and spent most of his childhood living on the Rosebud Indian Reservation in South Dakota

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yQG5X TIL the Black Death was originally spread to Europe in the 14th century by Mongols catapulting infected corpses into an Italian trading outpost in Crimea, who fled and unwittingly carried the disease back to Sicily where it proceeded to wipe out up to 60% of Europe's population in four years
ZpV6p TIL of the hexamyriapentachiliapentahectatriacontaheptagon, a polygon with 65,537 sides.
VMRKm TIL on august 10, 2018, an airplane was stolen from Sea–Tac Airport in Washington by 29-y-old Richard Russell, a ground service agent with no piloting experience. He flew around for 1h15min, kept radio contact, did a succesfull barrel roll, then crashed on an island purposely, killing only himself
WA7X TIL that Chess is a sport recognized by the IOC and therefore players are subject to Drug Testing
mV6x TIL Stephen king was hit by a van not far from his home in 1999. He suffered from a collapsed lung, a broken hip,a leg broken in nine places.Afterward he and his lawyer bought the van for $1,500 and when King healed, he wailed on it with a baseball bat before sending it to be crushed at a junkyard