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TIL both Walt Disney and Ernest Hemingway were ambulance drivers for the Red Cross in WWI.

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WMKo TIL that the US Gov’t took the land on which Mt Rushmore was built from the Sioux nation, and developed Mt. Rushmore on sacred Sioux grounds without any compensation. The US Gov’t has offered over 1 Billion Dollars in compensation, but the Sioux refuse to take it, saying the land was never for sale.
8aLjG TIL of the Heaven's Gate cult who believed an alien space ship was trailing a comet. Several dozen people joined the "Heaven's Gate Away Team" and committed a series of ritual suicides. Among the victims, Thomas Nichols, brother of actress Nichelle Nichols who played Uhura in the original Star Trek.
VdrD TIL that in 1860s, four white students at Phillips Exeter Academy confronted their headmaster and demanded that he kick out the black students - his response was “The colored student will stay, you can do as you please.”
vVnr TIL an 11 year old boy led the Hawaiian scholar Hiram Bingham to “discover” Machu Picchu about 100 years ago.
aMxJ TIL that life might have existed as early as 15 million years after the Big Bang.