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TIL a plague wiped out millions of Native Americans just before the pilgrims came, leaving the new settlers cleared land and fields already planted with corn

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PYPEV TIL déjà rêvé is a feeling similar to déjà vu, except instead of feeling like you’ve previously experienced an event in real life, you feel like you previously experienced it in a dream.
gM9JX TIL Socrates thought that the invention of writing would negatively affect peoples' memory, since people could just write things down instead of having to remember them.
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bG6a TIL that a NASA astronaut waited 19 years to fly in space. Don Lind was selected in 1966 but was chosen for canceled missions, or as backup for missions; he said, “I was backing up two of the most depressingly healthy people you can imagine.” Lind finally flew on the space shuttle in 1985.
pabO TIL: Since 1990- South Dakota has celebrated Native American Day instead of Columbus Day