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TIL the derogatory term of "Indians" for indigenous people came from Christopher Columbus thinking America was "The Indies"

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ADo0l TIL Bill gates purchased the Leonardo da Vinci's Codex for $30,802,500. Three years later he had its pages scanned into digital image files, some of which were later distributed as screen saver and wallpaper files on a CD-ROM as part of a Microsoft Plus! for Windows so everyone could enjoy them.
rN6Ao TIL prominent "sovereign citizen" David Wynn Miller believed he developed an infallible form of legal syntax that could easily prove people's innocence. In every instance of its use in court it has been described as complete nonsense.
aw6WL TIL Leonardo DiCaprio’s haircut from Titanic was outlawed by the Taliban
0wyky TIL that workers can get desensitized to the odor added to natural gas - mercaptan - which can lead to catastrophic industrial accidents. This applies mostly to purging those gases indoors and workers relying on sense of smell rather than monitors, without realizing they can't smell it anymore.
D1gBY TIL During the Battle of Gettysburg Minnesota soldiers captured a Virginia battle flag and returned it to MN. Virginia has continuously asked for it back, prompting then MN Gov. Jesse Ventura to say “Why? I mean, we won. … That makes it our heritage.”