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TIL that Chief Seattle was kicked out of the city named after him because he was Native American

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oByZR TIL that the Pentagon has a full-blown battle plan against zombies, for in-house training. In this document, zombies are categorized, from "evil, magic" zombies to "vegetarian" zombies which groan "graaaains" instead of the usual "braaaains".
yVPO8 TIL Mark Twain never completed his novel The Mysterious Stranger but it was published after his death. The 1916 Paine-Duneka edition was multiple stories spliced together that the editors patched together with their own writings. The original manuscripts were published in 1963.
8ylb TIL that creating a Death Star would cost roughly $850,000,000,000,000,000 and that it would take about 833,000 years to build. It would also need a laser of 1,000,000,000,000,000 kilograms worth of matter to have enough energy to destroy a planet for each time it was fired.
a8gaM TIL That Gerorges Lemaitre, the man who first theorized an expanding universe and Big Bang Theory, was also a priest, soldier, theoretical physicist, mathematician, astronomer, and professor of physics at a university.
lVK5 TIL that blond hair in humans developed only 11,000 years ago as an evolutionary response to the lack of sunlight in Northern Europe to enable more Vitamin D synthesis.