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TIL that it is a myth that most lottery winners end up broke.

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9YvNM TIL in the 1600s to avoid slavery a group of Africans on St. Vincent Island acquired the customs and language of the Native American group Kalipona so that Europeans would consider them to be native and leave them alone.
6E7D8 TIL that one of the documents the US Constitution is predominantly modeled after is the Iroquois Constitution, an extremely sophisticated and logically consistent document that governed the 5 Native American tribes of the Iroquois Confederacy: the Mohawk, Oneida, Onondaga, Cayuga and Seneca people.
d8bEQ TIL The Siege of Stalingrad resulted in more Russian deaths (military and civilian) than the US and Britain sustained (combined) in all of World War II.
7rB9r Today I learned that some beer companies put a plastic ball in their cans to enhance the taste
X00Mr TIL that in 1830, the Conic Sections Rebellion, Yale students protested having to draw diagrams on their final exams.