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TIL that many Cherokee Indians sided and fought with the Confederacy during the American Civil War, both because many were black slave owners themselves and also because they resented the Union for their treatment during the Trail of Tears.

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bOpp TIL Oral Roberts claimed he had a vision of a giant Jesus telling him to build a hospital. When the hospital was losing $10 million/year, Roberts claimed he had another vision from giant Jesus threatened to kill him if he didn’t raise $8 million. The hospital went bankrupt being $25 million in debt.
nebyo TIL Benjamin Franklin was a popular author at 16 under the name Silence Dogood. The articles are written in the persona of a middle-aged woman and Franklin received several marriage proposals in the process. Franklin would slide these articles under the door of his brother's newspaper print shop.
kJPZW TIL there's a live stream for the bridge between Buffalo, NY and Fort Erie, Ont. that has been operating for 18 months straight
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