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TIL the Miss Navajo Nation pageant requires contestants to butcher a sheep

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4kn5o TIL that when Gallup conducted a survey in 1944 asking Americans "What do you think we should do with Japan after the war?" 13% favored "Killing off" all the Japanese, 33% thought it should be split up or destroyed while the rest favored either supervision or rehabilitation.
nW8NW TIL, at first, Andrew Johnson wanted the Confederate leadership to be tried for treason, but Ulysses S. Grant threatened to resign and Johnson backed down.
Vvak TIL the fact that in 1983, 90% of US media was controlled by fifty companies; today, 90% is controlled by just six companies….
XPkE TIL according to a lawsuit filed earlier this year against medical clinics and physicians who performed his colonoscopy, a man claims he had left his phone on ‘record’ and caught staff mocking him the second he went under, making fun of his penis, threatening to fire a gun up his rectum, and more
0wko5 TIL about Repair Cafés where you can bring in broken household items and experts help you fix it for free rather than throwing the item out.