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TIL the official demonym for someone from the state of Indiana is “Hoosier”.

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yVAKa TIL a three-way civil war between Chinese Muslim rebels, a Tajik warlord, and Qing forces commanded by general Zuo Zongtang (also called General Tso) in western China between 1862 and 1877 resulted in over 20 million deaths. It was concurrent with the more famous Taiping rebellion.
NXwB1 TIL The average healthy human produced 1 to 2 liters of snot per day
7rApb TIL Alexander Graham Bell offered to sell his telephone patent to Western Union for $100,000 in 1876. The committee appointed to investigate the offer concluded the telephone was "hardly more than a toy" and "inherently of no use to us".
ZpV54 TIL that most blackboards are actually green because boards that were black tended to reflect a lot of light, while green boards reduced glare and were favored by teachers who had to stare at them all day.
4XXJb TIL that hip hop was created by a guy called DJ Kool Herc in the Bronx, NY