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TIL that people lived in caves in Scotland until 100 years ago when it was outlawed

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6E477 TIL that SeaWorld did everything in its power to conceal the mistreatment of orcas and the killings and injuries induced by their most popular orca, Tilicum, going so far as to blame the trainers knowing full well the whales were being mistreated to the point of mental and physical degradation.
XEgQk TIL that when Don Rosa, creator of the immensely popular modern Donald Duck comics (and "The Life & Times of Scrooge McDuck") tried to submit a comic book set in ancient Greece to the US mag Lexington Herald, its editor rejected it, stating: "We gear our comics toward a less intelligent audience".
1aeXD TIL a group of native Americans occupied Alcatraz for 14 months before being forcibly removed by the federal government.
jNEwn TIL that transparent aluminum is a real material. It's called Aluminium oxynitride or ALON and has far less weight and thickness than traditional bulletproof glass.
7rpxp TIL the US Govt. used shell companies to import Titanium from the Soviet Union, to build the Blackbird SR-71, so they could spy on the Soviet Union