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TIL Native Americans have been holding a National Day of Mourning on Thanksgiving since 1970

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GYyL4 TIL That, during the War of the Currents, Thomas Edison became so desperate to convince people that Tesla's current was more harmful than his own, that he began paying young boys 25 cents per stray dog they brought him, so he could publicly electrocute them with Tesla's current to prove his point.
ADV47 TIL Cocaine can only be processed legally in the USA by STEPAN Corporation
dod7 TIL that in 1968 a US plane carrying four H-bombs crashed into sea ice in Greenland and exploded, contaminating the area around the site with radiation.
Y7eQv TIL General Mills produced a breakfast cereal that contained an indigestible food colouring, rendering some children's feces pink and forcing General Mills to make a new formula
rNyYx TIL 2 time Olympic gold medalist and 3 division boxing champion Vasiliy Lomachenko has an amateur record of 396-1. He also avenged that 1 loss twice.