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TIL The French Canadian Shawinigan Handshake

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R7mN7 TIL Scholars of Mesoamerica are increasingly skeptical of the idea that the Aztecs viewed Cortes as a "God" and believe it was a myth invented by the Spanish in the years following the conquest. The myth became so accepted that it even made its way into indigenous sources like the Florentine Codex.
QJBRM TIL, William Shakespeare invented or introduced over 1,700 words into the English language that we still use today.
7mr7 TIL a Florida highschooler was suspended for wrestling a gun away from another student, because he was involved in an “incident with a weapon”
e078D TIL a 17 year old online trading scam artist was killed via a bomb that one of the people he scammed sent him in the mail in retaliation
epeE4 TIL that the WWII Japanese military had a wildfire campaign targeted at the USA, launching some 9,000 fire balloons into the jet stream, with an estimated 11% reaching the U.S. between November 1944 and April 1945. In the end the balloon bombs caused a total of six fatalities.