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TIL Milhouse first appeared in a Butterfingers commercial before actually appearing on "The Simpsons"

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KYeKE TIL that many Native Americans fought for the Confederacy during the American Civil War
grDB7 TIL that slave hymnals had coded messages meant to help slaves escape to freedom. Songs like Follow the Drinking Gourd and Steal Away to Jesus were full of signal phrases that meant things like ‘Follow this star north’ or ‘An Underground Railroad agent is here to help, escape happening tonight.’
QNGE9 TIL of Propaganda Due, an Italian masonic lodge founded in 1877 that by 1980s became known as the “a state within a state” responsible for high-level corruption and political manipulation.
6AKY TIL: A Scottish man called Gregor MacGregor invented a country called Poyais and earned millions from investors who invested in this non existant country!
kjjm TIL in 2012 Japanese mathematician Shinichi Mochizuki presented a proof for the “abc conjucture” - one of the most important, unsolved problems in math. However the proof is so difficult and abstract, that not even his peers get the gist of it. To this day it is still unconfirmed.