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TIL that after the removal of the Creek and Cherokee from their lands, the state of Georgia held a series of public lotteries to give away the property to White settlers.

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ZpMmB TIL of Army Spc. Alyssa Peterson who died after shortly after refusing to participate in torture of prisoners of war. Her death was ruled a suicide.
gvxW TIL a guy lived inside his couch for two years to avoid a one year prison sentence. His wife and kids were all in on it.
dDW57 TIL that Ayn Rand interviewed Oppenheimer twice in 1946 after being hired to write a screenplay on the creation of the atomic bomb, and she later based one of Atlas Shrugged's characters on him.
woKW1 TIL about the "catapult-able cockpit", created by Romanian inventor Anastase Dragomir and successfully tested in 1929 at the Paris-Orly Airport, which featured a parachuted chair that was ejected from an aircraft. It was the first modern layout for an ejection seat, later perfected during WWII.
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