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TIL that in the 1830’s the Crow Nation had a female chief who was a hunter, horse-rider and warrior and that she took four women as wives.

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8a7PV TIL about Jahangir Khan: A Pakistani squash player who won the World Open 6 times and went undefeated from 1981-1986, winning 555 games in a row which is the longest winning streak by any athlete in top-level professional sports as recorded by Guinness World Records.

Eg6nP TIL Hiram Bingham wasn’t the first to rediscover Machu Picchu. Peruvian farmer and explorer Agustín Lizárraga had arrived 9 yrs earlier, leaving an inscription "A. Lizárraga 1902." Sadly, he died one year after Bingham’s arrival, and his inscription was erased by Bingham for "preservation reasons."

wLDPE TIL Larry Brantley, the voice of Wishbone, got the gig after improvising about the dog's inner thoughts about a tennis ball for five minutes: "I walked out of the audition saying, 'I can't believe I just did five minutes about a tennis ball.' And then I got the job."

x65MB TIL about structural colouration. ‘Structural coloration in animals, and a few plants, is the production of colour by microscopically structured surfaces fine enough to interfere with visible light instead of pigments…’

v1aoB TIL In the 1940s the Superman Radio Show had Superman fight their version of the KKK using real information about the Klan. This was a crippling blow to the organization, causing recruitment to drastically decrease. In response the KKK ordered a boycott of the Radio Show’s sponsor, Kellogg.