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TIL Wearing ties was introduced by the Croats but then adopted by the French

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x6OBw TIL That against the almost universal cliche, xxxx doesn't grow on Trees, Oxygen does actually 'grow' on trees, although the bulk on Earth's oxygen is produced in other ways.
5VWlQ TIL that Olive Oatman, a white girl kidnapped by Native Americans in 1851 and sold to the Mojave people as a slave, caused an uproar after returning to white society bare-breasted with blue tattoos across her face, which inspired the book "Life Among the Indians", an early American best seller.
M77L7 TIL about “The Open Veins of Latin America,” a seminal historical analysis on resource exploitation since the Conquistadors, and how precious metal mining for bullets and aircraft feeds the Northern hemisphere’s depletion of resources and people from the Rio Grande to the Amazon
MpjV TIL Margaret Thompson was the first woman to win an Olympic medal in a shooting sport (silver) in 1976 after tying with the gold medal winner. When the Olympic committee refused a shootoff, the gold medalist pulled Thompson onto the gold medal platform with him.
BgRRb TIL almost 70% of employed Saudi citizens work for the government, and many of those work for less than 1 hour per day.