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TIL Indigenous Native Americans were not granted US citizenship until 1924

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YpO9d TIL of ‘The third place’ which is a social surrounding seperate from home and work. It’s said that these places are vital for establishing a sense of place , and getting out of the social isolation routine.
GYldG TIL Mathematician Leonhard Euler memory was said to have been so great that he was able to recite Virgil's Aeneid from beginning to end without hesitation. A text that is over 9000! lines long.
P1lKw TIL that although the Everest is the mountain with the most dead mountaineers, it isn't considered as deadly as other mountains, with a higher fatality rate
O86L TIL from a declassified US DOD document titled ‘Operation Northwoods’ that the DOD wanted to blow up a US Navy ship, down a civilian airliner, crash John Glenn’s spaceship, fake an attack on Guantanamo and stage communist terror campaigns to provide justification for a US military invasion of Cuba.
WkR9o TIL In the USA, Representatives do not have to live in their districts, only their states.