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TIL before the reintroduction of the horse to North America indigenous people of the great plains would use dog pulled travois to transport goods

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DZRV TIL of Franz Jägerstätter, an Austrian conscientious objector who told the Nazis that he would not fight for the evil side. He was executed.
ero4 TIL That the Democratic party got it’s donkey symbol because Andrew Jackson’s opponents called him a jackass. Which amused him to the point of making the donkey his party’s symbol.
REpj TIL that Lee Harvey Oswald defected to the Soviet Union in 1959, only to return in 1962. 18 months later he would assassinate John F. Kennedy.
NX5me TIL A division of the pharmaceutical company Bayer sold millions of dollars of blood-clotting medicine for hemophiliacs - medicine that carried a high risk of transmitting AIDS - to Asia and Latin America in the mid-1980s while selling a new, safer product in the West.
YpBKW TIL the abbreviation “lb” for pound comes from the ancient Roman unit of measure “libra pondo”, meaning “a pound by weight”, which is also why we ended up calling it a “pound”.