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TIL: In 1993 the U.S. government “hid” an apology to Native Americans in a spending bill.

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Lrjr TIL: Skull fragments Soviets claimed to be Hitler have been DNA tested and said to be that of a woman.
X9Yk TIL: Christian Bale went to his lunch meeting with ‘American Psycho’ writer Bret Easton Ellis as Patrick Bateman. Ellis became so uncomfortable with it that he had to ask Bale to stop the act.
4kZob TIL in 1994 Bill Drummond and Jimmy Cauty, former members of band The KLF, recorded a video of themselves burning £1 million. In 1995, the pair released a video of the burning titled "K Foundation Burn a Million Quid" and then promptly went on hiatus, returning in 2017.
wo76E TIL Pig Latin replaced Dog Latin after centuries as the dominant silly-talk
m1XbR TIL that Tootsie Rolls have been made with the same recipe since its invention in 1896, which requires the previous day's candy batch to be incorporated into each new batch. Theoretically, this means that there's a bit of the first Tootsie Roll in each piece of newly produced Tootsie Rolls everyday.