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TIL after oil was discovered on their homelands, 60 or more wealthy, full-blood Osage native Americans were killed from 1918 to 1931. The murders appear to have been committed by people intent on taking over their great wealth, whose land was producing valuable oil, and had annual royalties.

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XwlP TIL Swedish magician Lennart Green was disqualified from a large annual magic convention in 1988 because the judges accused him of using assistants in his act to shuffle the cards. 3 years later he performed the same act but instead had the judges shuffle the cards…he was awarded first place
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