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TIL a high school football coach was arrested after he vandalized his own school and tried to blame a rival school by spray painting their logo next to insults aimed at his fellow players and coaches. He’d hoped to motivate his team to win against them in an upcoming game. They lost.

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Z89kv TIL the near-extinction of the American bison was a deliberate plan by the US Army to starve Native Americans into submission. One colonel told a hunter who felt guilty shooting 30 bulls in one trip, "Kill every buffalo you can! Every buffalo dead is an Indian gone.”
dbK8 TIL a former Reagan administration official brought a young Bulgarian teenager over to the states in an effort to improve his education. That teenager, fluent in four languages, disappeared after high school, adopted the identity of a slain 3-year old, and became a government agent in Oregon.
XE578 TIL the population of Phytoplankton has dropped 40% since the 1950’s. Phytoplankton contribute 70% more Oxygen to our earth than trees do. (I.E. We need to care about the ocean!)
E1GXV TIL "Spider-Woman" was originally intended as a one-off character by Marvel for the sake of simply establishing trademark, but the first issue sold unexpectedly well. Writer/editor Marv Wolfman was asked to take the character to an ongoing series
P5gG TIL that two brothers vandalized wikipedia, giving an animal a fake nickname. This nickname ended up being picked up by news sources and becoming a real one.