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TIL there are myths of an advanced civilization of red haired people who disappeared after the last ice age (5,000+ years ago)

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jN44E TIL the first US-built tanks were too late for use in WWI but during the great depression the US army deployed six to disperse the BONUS army protest of WWI veterans
7rbKr TIL that while young Robert E. Lee worked surveying the boundary between Ohio and Michigan, he jokingly referred in a letter to a snake he killed in a lighthouse as the lighthouse's keeper. Lee's biographer Douglas Southall Freeman misinterpreted this as an admission that Lee killed a human keeper.
R55Zw TIL that the Seattle Mariners are the only MLB team that has never appeared in a World Series (the Brewers and Rockies have one loss each, while the Padres, Rays, and Rangers have 2 losses each)
P1XEZ TIL that there are online scam/gambling farms run by people enslaved by Chinese gangs, most of which based in Cambodia and Myanmar, where people across Southeast Asia are being tortured into scamming people or coercing others into gambling.
Lk9mv TIL about Empty Nose Syndrome, where occasionally after nasal surgery some patients feel like they are constantly suffocating, leading to suicide in rare cases