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TIL that the segment in Spirit, Stallion of the Cimarron where the horse is captured by Americans is an unflinching allegory for residential schools.

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P1MyE TIL: "A Baby NEVER Breathes Inside A Womb" until it's Out. Inside the womb, baby gets oxygen from the mother through the placenta and umbilical cord. blood carries oxygen and other nutrients and returns waste back to the mother to be eliminated without the need for the baby to breathe air.
5YpMk TIL Mature Douglas Fir trees can send sugar to saplings via miles of underground, gossamer-thin mycorrhizal fungi. Birches can loan carbon to fir trees in the summer, while firs pay it back in fall. Trees of different species can share nitrogen leached from salmon leftovers from a bear's lunch.
BA6k TIL King Henry VIII may have possibly had a rare blood type (Kell positive), which would explain his wives’ and mistresses’ many miscarriages as well as his midlife physical and mental deterioration.
a74J TIL that if a Lion fights a Tiger, experts believe “the tiger will always win.”
PY9yn TIL that the CIA admittedly disseminated fake evidence of UFO sightings in the 1950s and 60s to provide "cover" explanations for test flights of the U2 and other stealth aircraft