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TIL the popular Actor John Wayne was an unabashed white supremacist who voiced support for the genocide of Native Americans

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GY4XG TIL Kenny Rogers Roasters, a now defunct restaurant brand in the US has 156 locations in the throughout Asia
BrDWb TIL about the oldest living elephant - Vatsala, living at an Elephant camp in a Tiger Reserve. At 105, she has lived for more than double the age of an average Asian Elephant. Though loosing her vision to Cataract, she has been able to navigate using her trunk and support from her herd members
5rQp TIL that American life expectancy is now 35th best among the nations of the world, below Slovenia, Costa Rica & Cyprus
LNRm TIL the US once planned to stage acts of terrorism in the US and blame it on Cuba to provoke a war (Operation Northwoods)
lo6AK TIL Michelangelo was around 23 years old when he created the Pieta sculpture