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TIL that the US-Canadian Border was known by the Plains Indians as "The Medicine Line" for it's seemingly magical ability to keep US troops from crossing it.

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P1YRe TIL banned since 2008 for ‘unacceptable humanitarian consequences’, antipersonnel cluster bombs were first used by the Germans in WW2. In Iraq in 1991, 61,000 were dropped , containing 20 million submunitions
K4RG TIL that Army officer Hugh Thompson prevented the deaths of hundreds of Vietnamese civilians including women and children, by a group of American soldiers. Thompson, an Army helicopter pilot, landed between the soldiers and the villagers and threatened to open fire if they continued their attacks
6E9Rm TIL of the Muscadins, "mobs of young men, relatively well-off and dressed in a dandyish manner;" Parisian street fighters who suppressed the remnants of the Reign of Terror.
9YxR6 TIL of Der Kaiser von Kalifornien (The Kaiser of California), a 1936 film that was the first Western film made in Nazi Germany. Unlike most American Westerns of the 1930s it had a sympathetic portrayal of Native Americans
xwx7 TIL That on September 12, 2001 The Queen of England broke palace tradition to play the American national anthem for all stranded Americans in the U.K.