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TIL, George Lucas’ plans to build affordable housing in Marin county stalled after wealthy residents fought to stop it. Instead of waiting for the initiative to pass he decided to pay for it himself

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oVRK TIL, there is such a thing as a rock climbing treadmill.
LkGaQ TIL About Simo Häyhä, a Finnish Sniper during the Winter War. Despite not using a scope on his outdated rifle, he became the dealiest sniper in history. He was once shot in the head by an anti-tank rifle, but only fell into a coma after revenge. When he woke up, the Soviets retreated.
W7oa8 TIL about the Sand Creek Battle that occurred on November 1864 when a 675 man force of the Third Colorado Cavalry attacked and destroyed a village of Cheyenne and Arapaho people in southeastern Colorado Territory killing and mutilating an estimated 69 to over 600 Native American people.
E1vMW TIL about Marie Pantalon. A French woman in 1850 that decided to become a Gold Digger. She pretended to be a man to get to California, worked like any man, wielded a gun to defend her claims, and dressed in pants, unthinkable at the time, eventually obtained official permission to wear the pants.
ZpMXB TIL that machine gun Kelly wrote and starred in a movie that got a 0% rating on rotten tomatoes