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TIL The Pulitzer Prize only considers those works whose authors pay the $50 submission fee

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OxLR TIL: Six soldiers who fought in the American Revolution survived into the age of photography, 83 years after the British surrender
W89d TIL there’s a zipper truck on the Golden Gate Bridge that shifts the median from one lane to another to increase traffic flow in either direction.
mGly TIL That when Soviet Archaeologists opened the Mongol conqueror Timor’s tomb, they found a message on the inside saying ‘Whosoever Disturbs My Tomb Will Unleash an Invader More Terrible than I.’ On that very same day, Nazi Germany commenced Operation Barbossa, the invasion of the Soviet Union.
9XXp TIL in 1986, the United States suspended New Zealand from the ANZUS treaty after New Zealand declared a section of their waters a nuclear free zone
QJ8Ja TIL that under Franklin Delano Roosevelt there was an "Indian New Deal" and its "goal was to reverse the traditional goal of assimilation of Indians into American society and to strengthen, encourage and perpetuate the tribes and their historic traditions and culture."