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

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69y9Z TIL Samuel Morse, known today for the telegraph, was also a prolific painter. He created a 6' by 9' painting with more than three dozen Louvre masterpieces in miniature, to serve as a "textbook" to American painters. A small Mona Lisa is in there too.
JoJ8 TIL the guitar Slash plays on November Rain is a 59 Les Paul that Aerosmiths Joe Perry used in the 1970s before selling it. Perry wanted it back but lost track of it until a friend saw it in a magezine article about Slash. Slash didn’t want to sell, but gave it to Perry for his 50th birthday.
ldEV TIL that Danzig’s hit song “Mother” was in response to attempted censorship from Tipper Gore and the PMRC
grXgX TIL: Navajo believe transgender people have the special ability of understanding male/female, such as people who are male & understand the feeling of the female or a female who understands the feelings of those who are male, and they are considered very special people
9BxX TIL Locks of Love made only 317 wigs in 2011 from more than 100,000 donations, while Pantene made ten times the wigs with nearly half the donations