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TIL Dole sued and threatened everybody they could to make sure the documentary Bananas!* would not be shown to the public.

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kOVrm TIL in a 2005 NASA study, scientists successfully revived bacteria that had been in a frozen pond in Alaska for 32,000 years. The microbes had been frozen since when woolly mammoths still roamed the Earth. Once the ice melted, they began swimming around, unaffected, and quickly became infectious.
ANYK4 TIL The United States and the Cherokee Nation signed the Treaty of New Echota in 1835 which promised the Cherokee people a delegate to the House of Representatives
nep9G TIL Bhagat Singh Thind gained US citizenship in 1918, only to be stripped of it 4 days later for being Indian. His 2nd attempt had the Supreme Court rule against him. He succeeded in his 3rd attempt. He was also the first turbaned (Sikh) member of the US Army, serving during WWI.
W7LMo TIL that Terry Crews is a very talented illustrator. He apparently had an art scholarship before he had a football scholarship.
grEpy TIL that since 2016, Shanghai elderly residents may sue their children or other family members if they don't regularly visit, and can get them blacklisted in the social credit system if they don't comply