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TIL that Tsunamis in non seabound lakes exist

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NXXwb TIL that in 1893, Oregon Governor Sylvester Pennoyer was asked by the Grover Cleveland Administration to use his resources to protect Chinese Americans. Pennoyer responded to the request via a telegram which simply told the President to mind his business.
loMWN TIL that most of the US bankruptcies are caused by health problems.
BXBD TIL Wil.I.Am created the Samurai Jack theme song
GNgG [TIL] Crimea was one of the first carriers of the black plague back in 1346.
PplG TIL that when a homeless New Yorker dies and can’t be identified, he or she is buried using prison labor in an unmarked grave on an island filled with such mass graves.