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TIL the congressional page program was shut down due in part from congressmen soliciting sex from them

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D1emV TIL Indigenous Native Americans were not granted US citizenship until 1924
Oo08g TIL on Shark Tank as soon as the entrepreneurs are done filming, they’re whisked away to meet with a psychiatrist to make sure they’re OK. Some contestants can take the Sharks’ rejection pretty hard, so this is a precautionary measure ensure everyone is taken care of.
yQEOv TIL Jack the Giant-killer, Beanstalk-climber, of Lanterns and Frost fame, and often paired with Jill, is in fact an Archetypal Hero/Stock Character in Cornish and English folklore, and is believed to be the same person.
E1WQV TIL about "glacier mice": fuzzy green balls of moss that form on top of glaciers and move like a herd of rodents
XEDnr TIL the sea route that Titanic sunk on should have been populated by many other ships, which could have saved victims of the sinking, however, ships transferred their coal to Titanic in port so she could make the date of her voyage, resulting in the area being virtually isolated when Titanic sunk.