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TIL that indigenous tribes in what is now Oklahoma (Five Civilized Tribes), rely on the Dawes Rolls to determine a person's ties to one of the tribes by blood.

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m1Oly TIL that Hamida al-Attas, Osama Bin Laden's mother, was just 14 years old at the time when she became Mohammed bin Awad bin Laden's (48 years old) concubine before she was impregnated and married off to Mohammed Bin Laden's business associate, Mohammed al-Attas.
QNlBM TIL of the Edinburgh Seven, the first women to matriculate at a British university in 1869. The university discriminated them with charging higher fees. As they arrived at their anatomy exam, several hundred male students pelted them with mud and other objects and shoved a sheep into the exam hall.
y7WJ TIL that 300ft uphill from the highest water level reached by the 2011 Tōhoku tsunami sits a stone marker over a century old that warns, “Do not build your homes below this point!”
9YNJQ TIL: The city of Cairo derives itself from Al-Qāhirah, meaning “Camp of Mars”. The city was founded when Mars was visible in the sky.
9YV8r TIL that Homework was extremely controversial in the 1800s and early 1900. In 1901 California even banned homework for everybody under the age of 15.