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TIL It is illegal for any person whose blood is less than one-half Samoan to own land in American Samoa.

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LQVvm TIL about the Gardner museum heist, the biggest art theft in history, still unsolved and with a $10 million dollar reward for information leading to arrests and recovery of the stolen art.
NX0gP TIL John Stith Pemberton was a Confederate officer who became addicted to morphine after receiving a saber wound. Pemberton made a series of concoctions attempting to cure his addiction. Pemberton's experiments with coca and kola resulted in Pemberton's French Wine Coca and later Coca-Cola.
9xY7 TIL a Venus day is longer than a Venus year
OoxMY TIL The same week Anne Heche was cast in her first starring role Touchstone Pictures fired her after she made a red carpet appearance on the arm of Ellen DeGeneres, who she'd met just days earlier. Harrison Ford used his influence to get her rehired, but the damage to her career was already done.
oZVW TIL 70 years ago today Sophie Scholl was guillotined For treason. She led a heroic, though doomed, nonviolent resistance movement against the Nazis.The allies later dropped millions of copies of pamphlets she had written over Germany by plane.