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TIL China and India have been the population centers of the world for at least 6,000 years

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N0WN TIL that the Nazis actually like Native Americans and considered them Aryans.
1aEd TIL In 1945 Frank Sinatra cancelled a $10,000 gig and traveled to Gary, Indiana to convince white high school students striking against integration to return to school. Sinatra called it “the most shameful incident in the history of American education.”
1LYD TIL the US used the Navajo language to communicate in codes that were unbreakable to Japanese Intelligence. It is still the only spoken military code to never have been deciphered.
W77yX TIL that 5.8% of people living in Nunavut, Canada's northernmost territory, report having no knowledge of either English or French. Presumably, most of these people only speak Inuit languages
16Ka4 Today I learned the United States CIA was involved in the assassination of Rafael Trujillo, dictator of the Dominican Republic