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TIL that the Navajo Nation Indian reservation has its own elected president. The office was created in 1991 with the current president being Jonathan Nez.

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4NdR TIL That it rains diamonds on gaseous planets like Neptune and Uranus. They contain methane that at high pressures and temperatures, turn into diamonds which then fall to the center of the planet.
78Z9r TIL about the Gault archaeological site, which has convincing evidence that humans inhabited North America 20,000 years ago
e0wA6 TIL that Paul Bunyan stories were the 19th century logger equivalent of Chuck Norris jokes
kl17 TIL Joseph-Ignace Guillotin, the man for whom the guillotine was named, was an opponent of the death penalty. His family was so embarrassed to have the guillotine named after them that when the French government refused to rename of the machine, they changed their family name instead.
rNyNx TIL that Treadmills were used as punishment devices for people sentenced to forced labor in British prisons. It was banned as cruel and inhumane by 1900.