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TIL the Russian colony at Fort Ross California had enlisted Native Hawaiians, Yakuts from Siberia, and Finns

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xV007 TIL a painting found of Judith Slaying Holofnes was originally attributed to Caravaggio but later determined to be by Artimisia Gentileschi. The blood was depicted travelling in a parabolic arc, a concept introduced by Galileo in 1608 that wouldn't have been known when Caravaggio painted his in 1599
M7x4A TIL that the British, Canadians and Americans occupied Iceland during WWII
wLE78 TIL that in 1970, the state commission in Mississippi voted to not air Sesame Street because of its “highly [racially] integrated cast of children” which “the commission members felt ... Mississippi was not yet ready for”.
nWj5b TIL young horseshoe crabs use their flap shaped gills called book gills to paddle through the water.
kO9lW TIL that it's possible to buy random, assorted books "by the foot", for the sake of filling up and decorating otherwise empty bookshelves and libraries, a service typically used by filmmakers and decorators, but also rich people on occasion.