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TIL 90% of Native Americans have no issue with the name “Washington Redskins”

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GAlyN TIL about Joseph Crater, a New York State Supreme Court Justice who mysteriously vanished amid a political scandal in August 1930. He was last seen leaving a restaurant on West 45th Street in Manhattan after having dinner with his mistress and a lawyer friend. His disappearance was never solved.
BrOQD TIL that Bank of America's digital assistant Erica is named that because "bank of amERICA"
m1ddR TIL in 1995, a man was convicted by a court in France for the murder of a teenage girl. However, he fleeing to Germany. In 2009, the father of the victim organized a team to abduct the killer from Germany and deliver him to a French courthouse, where he was finally sentenced to 15 years in prison.
wLYNM TIL Japan has a popular TV show called "My First Errand" where little kids are sent to do minor tasks for the family on their own while a camera crew secretly follows them.
6LQZ TIL that in 1971, when Frank Sinatra couldn’t get a ringside ticket to Ali & Frazier’s “Fight of the Century”, he managed to get a press pass to shoot photos for LIFE magazine instead.