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TIL General Robert E. Lee was pardoned for treason by President Gerald R. Ford

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Lk6Gp TIL in 1926, Poland sent the US a birthday card with over 5 million signatures. Polish citizen Leopold Kotnowski visited the White House to present the card for America’s 150th birthday. It has 30,000 pages full of art, photos, poems and pressed flowers.
059M TIL that flight attendants are trained to look for signs of human trafficking and even volunteer to help law enforcement every year at one of the biggest events of human trafficking, the Superbowl.
VMnlZ TIL that Götz von Berlichingen, a warrior poet, lost his right arm by cannon fire in 1504. He had a mechanical arm invented so that he could still hold a sword and fought in numerous battles, led rebel armies, was attributed with coining the phrase "he can kiss my ass" and died at 82 of old age.
VBXnk TIL The Yupik people of Alaska and Siberia do not consider themselves Inuit and are ethnically different. They favor the term Yupik, Yupiit, or Eskimo. In Canada, Inuit is the preferred term, while in Greenland, they use Greenlanders or Kalaallit
RAg7 TIL when Luxembourg was liberated from nazism in 1944, the returning government was so impressed with some regulations and laws concerning tax and employment the nazis had made, that it decided to simply keep them.