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TIL that Christopher Columbus was jailed upon his return to Spain for mistreating the native population of Hispaniola

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7QoP TIL that the folklore of the indigenous people of Flores, Indonesia tells of short, hairy humanoids who spoke their own language. In 2003, archaeologists found fossils of dwarf humanoids on Flores – which were 13,000 years old.
d80AE TIL that while the school curriculums of Scandinavian countries require that every child should learn how to swim, drowning is still the third most common cause of death among children in Sweden
6lem TIL after President Garfield was shot during an assassination attempt in 1881, he was kept alive for several days through rectal feeding, and was even given drams of whisky via his butt. The Dr who treated him was named Dr Doctor.
l79o5 TIL - Disney once sued three day care centers in Florida for unauthorized use of their characters (5 foot high likenesses on murals on the buildings) who had to remove them. Universal in turn let the centers use Scooby Doo, Flintstones & other of their Hanna-Barbera characters.
yVrNM TIL commercials for prescription drugs were effectively banned from American television until the FDA eased restrictions in 1997