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TIL Davy Crockett voted against the Indian Removal Act

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j6emE TIL of British boxer Terry Downes who defeated the legendary “Sugar Ray” Robinson and quipped about the ageing Robinson, “I didn’t beat Sugar Ray, I beat his ghost.”
akA9 TIL in 2013, scientists sequenced genome of a horse that had been kept frozen for the last 700,000 years in permafrost in at Thistle Creek, Yukon, Canada
4k0JJ TIL that if you have a bunch of 1x1x1 blocks arranged into two cubes, there is never a way to rearrange the blocks to make a third cube
EgKWP TIL: Irish is an "endangered language" with less than 80,000 native speakers left
LQMkd TIL that Moroccan troops fought on both sides of the First Indochina War.