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TIL of a theory that suggests that the earliest Old World contact with the Americas was not with Columbus or Norse settlers, but with the Phoenicians in the first millennium BC

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kNwW TIL: The Canadian RCMP systematically slaughtered the sled dogs of the Inuit until as late as the 1970s
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8yMP TIL Clarence Earl Gideon after being arrested in 1961 for stealing $5 in change and a few bottles of beer, appealed to the US Supreme Court which established the right to an appointed attorney.
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gMBYL TIL Kate Bush has only toured once, the Tour of Life, which ran for six weeks in 1979. The BBC suggested that she may have quit touring due to a fear of flying, or because of the death of a lighting engineer, Bill Duffield, who was killed in an accident during a warmup concert.