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TIL about Jamake Highwater, a consultant on Star Trek: Voyager who made a career out of lying about being Native American

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YEyP TIL Russia banned the sale of vodka during World War I. The government immediately lost a third of its income.
mx4eP TIL in the civil war, generals would deliberatley expose themselves to enemy fire to show off their courage and to lead by example. Union general Kearny rode right next to confederate lines, saying "The Rebel bullet that can kill me has not yet been molded". Shortly after he was shot and killed.
pYyO4 TIL - Computers were people (mostly women) up until WWII. Teams of people, often women from the late nineteenth century onwards, were used to undertake long and often tedious calculations.
p81xN TIL there are large tunnels called Utilidors running under the Magic Kingdom at Disney World. The Utilidors allow employees to perform services like trash removal and for characters to travel around the park without being seen.
6ERM8 TIL The Glorious Revolution, was the November 1688 deposition and replacement of James II and VII as ruler of England, Scotland and Ireland by his daughter Mary II and his Dutch nephew and Mary's husband, William III of Orange. This was also when gin (jenever) was introduced in England.