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TIL It wasn't in Until the Indian Citizen Act (1924) that Native Americans had the right to vote

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5j1B TIL Liam Neeson was training to be a teacher before he punched a student who pulled a knife out on him. He then gave up on his teaching dream and went into acting.
ML9B TIL that if the man rationing the rum on a ship was suspected of cheating would be challenged to mix the rum with gunpowder. rum that was not watered down and was “over proof”, would still allow the power to ignite, coining the term.
WNk4 TIL that the term ‘gargoyle’ only refers to carved stone figures in Gothic architecture that function as water spouts. Any other figure is considered a 'grotesque’.
wLkQY TIL Loki gave birth to an 8-legged horse, after disguising himself as a mare in heat and having relations with a stallion. It became "the best horse among gods and men".
YpBZ7 TIL the CIA offered funding to artists Jackson Pollock, Mark Rothko and de Kooning so that their abstract work would show how free artists were in the United States compared to the rigid work of the Soviet Union.