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TIL Thomas Jefferson conducted the first legitimate archaeological dig in history and proved that the massive burial mounds were created by Native Americas, not the “lost race” of white people previously thought.

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pLQp TIL a NZ citizen was imprisoned inside one of the world’s harshest prisons in Myanmar for over a year because he posted an image of Buddha with headphones on his Facebook page.
PY0Qn TIL of William James Beal. In 1879, he started one of the longest running experiments in botany, testing the seed viability of 21 plant species over long periods of time. The experiment is scheduled to finish in 2100, when the last bottle of seeds will be tested.
4XQog TIL that Koi carps bread outside of Japan live on average 15 years, while the average age of Japanese koi is 40 years and the oldest recorded lifespan is 226 years (the Koi named Hanako lived from 1751 to 1977).
1aXXW TIL Andrew Carnegie tried to give the Philippines $20 Million so that they could buy independence from the United States
4JEw TIL John Adams, before becoming the second U.S. President, was the lawyer who defended the British soldiers responsible for the Boston Massacre. Six of the soldiers were acquitted, while the other two were convicted of manslaughter and given reduced sentences.