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TIL that theday after the Kent State shootings, A Gallup poll found that 58% of Americans believed the students were responsible for their own deaths, while only 11% blamed the Guard.

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KOgRa TIL the 'ye' in 'ye olde' is pronounced 'the'. In old English, they had a letter for the 'th' sound, þ, which in handwriting looked a lot like the letter 'y' and were often used interchangeably.
1N7O TIL: The Vietnamese are the biggest consumers of the rhino horn and they received the idea that rhino horn was an aphrodisiac from the western media’s false reporting. There is no known record of its use as an aphrodisiac in Traditional Chinese Medicine.
nwWo TIL that during the planning for NASA’s moon landings of the 1960s, it was suggested that the United Nations flag be used instead of the U.S. flag
6EKjJ TIL that a species of pine beetle has been devastating trees in the Rocky Mountain region as the climate warms
YpXlv TIL Pasiphaë, mother of the Minotaur and wife to King Minos, placed a fidelity charm on Minos that would cause him to ejaculate serpents, scorpions, and centipedes, killing any unlawful concubine he laid with.