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Today I learned : Who the Indigenous people of Sicily are.

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XjdR TIL James Earl Jones stuttered so bad as a child that he was functionally mute for 8 years until an English teacher in High School discovered he had a gift for poetry and helped him end his silence.
o887 TIL of the jumping cholla, a cactus that can break itself off and embed in you when you get near it.
4Xd5R TIL when France was occupied by the Germans in 1940, Citroen was forced to produce vehicles for the Nazis. They chose to move the fill line on their oil dipsticks lower, causing the trucks to seize under stress from low oil.
d8eDK TIL that in 1947, the Kiwanis Club of Ahoskie, N.C. held a drawing for a New Cadillac. When a Black Navy Veteran won, they announced there had been a mistake, refunded the winner the $1 price of his ticket, and drew again for a white winner.