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TIL: Sioux Indians peacefully surrendered as their land was being stolen, then still were attacked by US forces in the Wounded Knee Massacre

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4JWR TIL in 1974 USA created the M14 Anti Personnel mine nicknamed the Toe Popper because it was designed to only maim rather than kill as it mostly just destroyed a majority of one foot. It was small, cheap and easily deployed. USA still has 1.5 million in reserve for deployment in Korea.
R5npl TIL: Leif Erikson is regarded as the first European to land in North America, nearly 500 years before Columbus.
wKjE TIL that the guitarist of the band ‘Phoenix’ was once in a band with friends/future-founders of 'Daft Punk’. They disbanded shortly after receiving a harsh review from a British music magazine in which the reviewer referred to the band’s sound as “a daft punky thrash”.
KY666 TIL baseball legend Ted Williams was wingman for astronaut legend John Glenn in the Korean War
e0G9D TIL that the term “cervical” does not only refer to the cervix of a woman, but is also used to allude to a person’s neck and several other “neck-like passages” within the body (see comment).