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TIL Indigenous Native Americans were not granted US citizenship until 1924

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jN1YE TIL Why the buttons for girls and guys’ clothes are on different sides: when button up clothes were invented, wealthy women were dressed by their servants, and men dressed themselves. Having buttons on different sides made it easier for servants to button.
0dZoj TIL the United States Air Force has airplanes that function as mobile airborne radio and television stations
d4BQ TIL that Medieval monks would often complain about their jobs by writing “bitchy comments” in the margins of the manuscripts they had to copy- for example, “I am very cold,” “Oh, my hand,” and “Now I’ve written the whole thing: for Christ’s sake give me a drink.”
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