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TIL that the levitating businessman emoji 🕴️ is a depiction of reggae musician Peter Tosh of the Wailers

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EgYAx TIL about Aazhawigiizhigokwe - the only Ojibwe woman to ever become a full warrior, permitted to carry weapons, wear war paint, take part in ceremonies, raids, and hunting expeditions, as well as speak before the tribal council
4XVpo TIL that when Bill Watterson turned down the opportunity to license and merchandise “Calvin and Hobbes,” it was estimated that he was turning down $300-400 million to maintain the integrity and purity of the comic.
QJo1p TIL of Cibella Borges, a female NYC cop who was fired from her job after it was revealed she posed for a nude magazine prior to becoming an officer. She was reinstated three years later and awarded $80,000 in backpay
l7gDa TIL that in 1421, a village in the Netherlands vanished overnight in the St. Elizabeth’s flood — and legend says its church tower was guarded by a phantom black cat
MeoJK TIL that the Germans saw the signing of the treaty of Versailles as humiliating defeat. The treaty was signed in the Compiègne Wagon. When the French surrendered to the Germans in 1940, Hitler had the wagon taken out of a museum and placed in the same spot for signing the new armistice.