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TIL that almond milk was a common staple in medieval Europe.

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e0KX5 TIL Native American Colonel Donehogawa hand-wrote the surrender terms at Appomattox in April 1865 signed by Confederate General Robert E. Lee, who "stared at me for a moment, he extended his hand and said, 'I am glad to see one real American here.' I shook his hand and said, 'We are all Americans.'"
neGD9 TIL about the Theo Albrecht kidnapping and it was just incredibly unique! He not only manged to be freed, but chiseled his captors down in Ransom price then went on to win half what he lost in a lawsuit as business related losses!!!
YRwA TIL that in the 1940s the FBI considered the movie “It’s a Wonderful Life” to be communist propaganda due to its supposed subversive anti-capitalist/banking themes.
xXY7 TIL that during the Dust Bowl, one Texas town paid a man to fire off rockets carrying an explosive mixture of dynamite and nitroglycerin to induce rain.
e06xn TIL Jeff Goldblum tried to hire a prostitute at the age of 13. He had heard about the red light district so stole $5 from his father and went to pick a girl. On the way to the room, he chickened out.