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TIL 16 years after the trail of tears ended, the Choctaw Indians donated 170 dollars to relief for The Irish Potato Famine

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4XoX6 TIL that Jason Hook, the current guitarist for the heavy metal band Five Finger Death Punch, began his career as a studio and stage guitarist for Hillary Duff.
GEmQ TIL pornography is legal in the US even though prostitution is not, because it is illegal to pay one explicitly for sex, but the participants in a film/photo are paid to act and are protected under the first amendment to take part in sexual acts as part of the act.
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QJBwd TIL the computers on the Lunar Modules used for the Apollo moon landings used SI (metric) units for their calculations and converted them to Imperial units for the astronauts to read on their instrumentation panels.