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TIL that Native Americans continued to own Don Cheadle’s ancestors as slaves after the civil war.

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mx05P TIL in 1518 a "dancing plague" broke out in Strasbourg. Dozens of people started dancing for no apparent reason, some to the point of exhaustion and death. Some historians have attributed the plague to the accidental consumption of a fungus that contains a compound structurally similar to LSD.
0d15 TIL the Japanese Honey Bee kills its most fearsome predator (the Japanese Giant Hornet) by creating a 500 bee convection oven and cooking single Hornets to death.
XEVvX TIL The opening scene to the series MASH was filmed in the exact same canyon and location where Kobe Bryant's chopper went down.
7rMpp TIL only 2 infectious diseases have been completely eradicated: the rinderpest virus which affects cattle, and the smallpox virus
nWXeB TIL about Sikkim, a Himalayan Kingdom that was independent for +300 years as recently as 1975, when the Chogyal, a Buddhist absolute monarch (except 1973-75) of Tibetan origin was desposed of in a referendum by his (mostly Hindu) subjects where the overwhelming majority (97%) voted to join India.