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TIL All US Army Helicopters are named after Indigenous North American Tribes

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Oown1 TIL of an early variation of the jockstrap, called the "suspensory". It was developed in the 1820s as way to lift the scrotum away from the saddle. General Custer's suspensory is on display at the Little Bighorn Battlefield National Museum.
6ElNl TIL 99% of consumer grade fireworks are made in China
7rrXO I mean, it's not just me, right?
WnZ9 TIL that an anti-Semitic nobleman once allegedly told Moses Montefiore that he had recently visited Japan, where “they have neither pigs nor Jews.” In response, Montefiore said that they should both go there so that it will have one of each.
Nb18 TIL lighter skin and hair pigments in early Eurasian humans may have been due to interbreeding with neanderthals