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TIL About "Cargo Cults", which are religions that are formed from natives seeing bases being built in their areas during WW2, after the war ended and everything was abandoned, the natives would try and replicate the soldiers during ceremonies, such as by marching, and signaling planes to land

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bdNa TIL that the stereotypical “witch-look” comes from early medieval female beer brewers called “alewives”. They kept a cat to chase away rodents, brewed beer in a big cauldron, used a broomstick-like “ale stake” to signal that they sold beer, and wore a pointy hat to stand out in a crowd.
9YlwB TIL that a week after the Kent State massacre in 1970, a Gallup poll revealed nearly 60 percent placed total blame on the students, while only 10 percent blamed the guardsmen.
QNxyd TIL when he was an Illinois state legislator, Abraham Lincoln was challenged to a duel by state auditor James Shields. Lincoln insisted on broadswords as the weapon rather than pistols prompting Shields to back out and call for a truce.
lDrG TIL Helen Keller was a socialist and one of the founders of the ACLU. After extensive travel, she said, “I had once believed that we are all masters of our fate…Now, however, I learned that the power to rise in the world is not within the reach of everyone.”
PbYE TIL A bank in Utah was made using parcel post delivered bricks, around one ton of bricks sent a day. After the building was completed, the regulations were changed, with the post office claiming “It is not the intent of the post office that buildings be sent through mail.”