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TIL that Milwaukee does actually translate to "The Good Land", but not in Algonquin

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VBJmZ TIL That around 1000 years ago, the Inuit Native Americans encountered Norse (Viking) settlements in Greenland. It’s believed that the Natives were responsible for the vanquishing of the Vikings from their colony.
D1bAe TIL After losing her husband and four children to yellow fever, and her job to the great Chicago fire, Mary "Mother" Jones became a labor organizer. She organized a march of working children from Philadelphia to New York, and her speeches provoked workers to organize during the Coal Wars.
o1kY TIL Chinese companies have been caught making tofu out of sewage and marinating meat in goat urine.
Lkl7P TIL two 16 year old girls in West Virginia murdered their best friend by stabbing her over 50 times because they got tired of being her friend.
56OR TIL that even after 8years Britney Spears is still under a conservatorship which is reserved usually for people mentally ill or in vegetative state.Her father makes $130k just as her conservator & doesn’t allow her to hire own lawyers & has custody of her two sons.It could last forever.