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TIL Stand Watie was the only Native American Confederate General leading a Native American force they were the last Confederate force to surrender. Finally surrendering on the June 23rd 1865, 75 days after Robert E. Lee surrendered.

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95dG TIL that Google made a detailed, interactive map of the galaxy in HTML5, just to see if they could.
VAMp TIL that the violent crime rate in the US has dropped dramatically in the last few decades, but the majority of Americans think it’s increasing.
nW4eP TIL Escaping slaves use to throw balls of fried cornmeal out to distract plantation hounds from tracking them. The hounds stopped barking and tracking thanks to the cornmeal which later adopted the name “hush puppies”.
D11Lp TIL of the "Just Missed it Club," a group of people who, for one reason or another did not sail on the Titanic. One of these members was Alfred Gwynne Vanderbilt, son of the late shipping and railroad mogul Cornelius Vanderbilt. He died in the Lusitania disaster 3 years later.
oBWOE TIL that when Victor Vescovo reached the bottom of the Mariana Trench, the deepest trench in the world, he discovered a plastic bag and candy wrappers at 10,928 metres (35,849 ft.) below the surface, confirming that human-generated waste can pollute even the deepest parts of the ocean