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TIL Mark Twain initially supported American Imperialism, but, after discovering America's true motives in the Philippine–American War by reading the Treaty of Paris, he changed his position, saying "And so I am an anti-imperialist. I am opposed to having the eagle put its talons on any other land."

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BY7D TIL that life in Puritan New England was so hard that children who were abducted by Native Americans often refused to come back
6E197 TIL during Grover Cleveland’s election campaign, it emerged that he had a possible illegitimate child. The campaign said it was true and that Grover had done his best in dealing with it. The mother disagreed- she said Grover had assaulted her, then had the baby taken from her and had her committed.
neQyb TIL the emperor tamarin was named for its elegant and distinctive mustache which was thought by some to resemble the mustache of German emperor Wilhelm II. In 1907, the Swiss zoologist Emil August Goeldi named the monkey "emperor" as a joke, but it then became the species name we know it by today.
D1RpP TIL that in 1998, after analyzing the United States' real estate cycle, Georgist economist Fred Foldvary correctly predicted that there would be a recession-causing crash in the housing market in 2008.
Wkoeo TIL that it is possible for the two hemispheres of our brains to be independently conscious – and even to have differing opinions.