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TIL of Chief Red Cloud, a Native American Nazi sympathizer. He praised Adolf Hitler as a spiritual brother and painted a vision of a coming war when white Christians and American Indians would unite to defeat the Jews.

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1aj84 TIL that Samoans are 40 times more likely to make it to the NFL than an average Non-Samoan American.
logXG TIL the San Marino football team has only won one match in its entire history, and has scored 24 goals in 164 matches.
loQEr TIL that extended bouts of hiccups can be caused by earwax, an insect, or even a hair touching the eardrum.
QJ586 TIL about Babi an Egyptian baboon God who would use his massive erection as a mast on a sailboat taking people into the Afterlife
d8rwQ TIL: Native Americans created a universal sign language that allowed 2/3 of all Indigenous tribes to communicate across most of North America, hundreds of years before Europeans invented a sign language of their own.