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TIL that the colour Indigo means "India Dye". It was produced from a plant which grows in South Asia. This was highly profitable for the colonial trade by the East India Company.

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kJAPd TIL Naskapi First Nations had a festival in honour of the bear, where only bear meat was allowed to be consumed during these feasts. The neck and shoulder meat were divided into twelve slices, each slice sufficed to feed two men
Wkm6X TIL of a term 'Revenge Bedtime Procrastination' which is "a phenomenon in which people who don’t have much control over their daytime life refuse to go to sleep early in order to regain some sense of freedom during late night hours."
0nDL TIL that Owen J. Baggett, an American pilot in WW2 became the first pilot to shoot down an enemy aircraft while parachuting with an M1911 pistol
ndLB TIL Before being killed in a drive-by shooting, Tupac Shakur was set to audition for the role of Mace Windu in the Star Wars prequels.
1aEkO TIL Juha Mieto of Finland lost the 15km cross county skiing event at the 1980 Olympics by 1/100 of a second. After this event the International Ski Federation changed its rules to round times to the nearest tenth of a second.