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TIL that when North and South Dakota were admitted to the US, President Harrison asked the Secretary of State to shuffle the documents so no one would know which was admitted first

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9er7 TIL Nazi POWs living in American camps buried the corn they were given because they didn’t like it. They got caught when the corn started growing out of the ground.
D1wGP TIL that there was a group of middle aged women called “Snapists” who believed that they were married to Severus Snape on the ‘astral plane’ and that he controlled their lives. An independent researcher published an in-depth paper on the matter.
GYOxG TIL that Louisa May Alcott, the author of "Little Women," never actually wanted to write the book. She thought of the genre as "moral pap for the young," and only decided to write this novel in order to help her father.
9AvG TIL that because weather moves West to East, the allies had a major advantage in WW2
WALB TIL that ‘art’ used to be an Olympic sport. Artists were award gold, silver and bronze medals for architecture, painting, sculpture, music and literature across multiple Summer Olympics in the early 20th Century. The 'arts’ were dropped from the Games because they drew too many professional artists.