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TIL that there was a war fought over the shooting of a pig, called the Pig War, between the US and Britain.

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GAkdJ TIL that in 1795, the British Government began requiring hair powder users to pay a 1 Guinea annual fee (roughly £100 pounds today) or face substantial fines. In its first year, the tax raised £200,000. By the time it was repealed in 1869, it yielded an annual revenue of £1,000.
KYoP6 TIL after “Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom” faced controversy for its depiction of India, Mola Ram actor Amrish Puri said: "I know we are sensitive about our cultural identity, but we do this to ourselves in our own films. It's only when some foreign directors do it that we start cribbing."
b69xN TIL about the Gatun Dam. It was built to facilitate construction of the Panama Canal and was the largest damn in the world at the time.
l7OdN TIL in 2007 a Cherokee council voted 'overwhelmingly' to strip 2,800 people of tribal citizenship, defining citizenship as 'by blood'. After a judgment in 2017 the Tribe began accepting and processing applications for citizenship for the descendents of Freedmen.
aEbA TIL Fredrick Douglas said The American people have this lesson to learn: That where…where poverty is enforced, where ignorance prevails, and where any one class is made to feel that society is an organized conspiracy to oppress, rob, and degrade them, neither persons nor property will be safe.