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TIL About Silas Soule, a Little-Known Union Officer and Abolitionist Who Died Aged 26 for Testifying About the Massacre at Sand Creek

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KOREa TIL the 1969 movie "They Shoot Horses, Don't They?" was nominated for a total of 9 Oscars including directing, screenplay, editing, music and 3 out of 4 acting awards. Yet, it somehow wasn't nominated for Best Picture. It still holds the record for most nominations without one for Best Picture.
GAnMG TIL that the United States has a long and storied history of partisan guerilla warfare against its own citizens
aO6Z TIL the genome of modern humans contains the DNA from four different hominid ancestors: homo sapiens, Neanderthals, Denisovans, and a fourth species that has yet to be discovered.
neQPG TIL some of the slaves freed from Charleston SC during the civil war organized a March at a race track where union soldiers had died in what is known as the first memorial day observance (a year before other states, and 3 years prior to the first national observance).
OG5X6 TIL that only reason why the 1987 John Hughes Thanksgiving-comedy movie “Planes, Trains, and Automobiles” was rated R by the MPAA, was because in one scene, Steve Martin’s character used the word “fucking” 18 times in the span of 55 seconds.