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TIL There is a flower named "Blue Dicks" Dichelostemma Capitatum

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8a6mX TIL the Lenape tribe were the original inhabitants of Manhattan, New York and were forced to leave 300 years ago. Tribes from across the country returned to New York last year for the first Pow Wow in centuries to celebrate their origin.
9WXM TIL - Aluminum foil starts out as an 8 ton block that’s rolled down gradually until it yields 8 miles of foil
LQEjV TIL a Reading, PA Funereal Home has kept the mummified corpse of “Stoneman Willie” for 128-years, and he will finally be laid to rest this fall.
N7y0E TIL over 15 to 20 networks rejected the Duffer Brothers' "Stranger Things" series, saying no one would be interested in a Sci-Fi horror that revolves around kid protagonists. One executive said they need to make it a kids show or have an adult character (Jim Hopper) be the main protagonist instead.
78keb TIL during The Plague of Justinian, the Emperor Justinian made tax payers liable for what their deceased neighbours owed in taxes.