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neMVb TIL the name Yosemite was given by the white men who thought it was the name of the natives they were trying to drive out of the area. It was later learned that the natives actually called themselves the Ahwahneechees and the word “Yosemite” meant “They are killers.”
5YDpr TIL----FISH CANNONS EXIST---- Whooshh Innovations' "Salmon Cannon" Gives Fish A Boost Over Dams
7okP TIL Western science hadn’t yet discovered the Gorilla when Darwin was writing ‘On The Origin of Species’
9wk17 TIL in 1931, during the Great Depression, there were so many news accounts of starving USA citizens that colonial-era Cameroon in west Africa raised money for Americans as aid. They collected $3.77 - about $70 today.
KOmY9 TIL that the author of the Perry Mason book series, Erle Stanley Gardner, also founded The Court of Last Resort, which helped those who had been convicted because of poor legal representation; misinterpretation of forensic evidence; or careless and malicious actions of police and prosecutors.