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TIL that Labor Day was created by President Grover Cleaveland in 1894, after 30 striking railroad employees were killed during the Pullman Strike

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Y7jl7 TIL by the year 2100, the human race will have lost about half of the languages in use today. Every fourteen days a language dies. For native speakers of Navajo, Southwestern Ojibwa, Ohlone or Aragonese, losing their language means losing cultural heritage and history.