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TIL about Tommy Prince,a member of the Devil's Brigade, the grandson of a chief who negotiated Treaties 1 and 2 in Manitoba, the most highly decorated indigenous soldier in Canadian history, and an early advocate for the abolition of the Indian Act in favour of respecting treaty rights.

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Yp5kG TIL about Rosie the Ribiter, the American Bullfrog that holds the record for longest frog jump with a leap of 21 ft, 5 in in 1986. The prize for anybody to beat the record stands at $5000 USD
xVeL0 TIL during the height of the Cuban Missile Crisis a second U2 Spy Plane had strayed into Soviet Airspace. When radioing for directions an unknown voice told him to turn right 35 degrees which would have taken him deeper into the Soviet Union. When asked for an identifying code there was no response.
ANPDo TIL that, despite using the same alphabet (Hangul), North Korea and South Korea order the letters differently, with NK placing new letters at the end of the alphabet and SK grouping similar letters together
XQE TIL that the highest scoring Soccer game was 149-0 In which, in protest, Stade Olympique de L'Emyrne started to score on themselves in protest of a few bad calls the referee made.
ADV8w TIL that the brushwork on Mona Lisa is so intricate that it literally requires x-rays to view the brush strokes. Apparently, Vinci used a well-known renaissance painting technique called 'sfumato', in which he added 30 layers of paint that still came out to be only 40 micrometers.