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TIL of the Treaty of Canandaigua between the USA and the Iroquois in 1794. Article 6, requiring the US to provide $4500 in goods every year, is honored to this day, but Article 2, protecting the land of the Oneida, was mostly ignored and their land fell from 6,000,000 acres to just 32 acres in 1920.

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m58x TIL Alec Guinness (Obi-Wan) received 2.25% of the total profits Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope while Harrison Ford (Han Solo) only made .67% the profits and Mark Hamill (Luke) and Carrie Fisher (Leia) only took home .25% of profits.
W7bwN TIL about Punkinhead the Bear. Created by Canada's Eaton's department stores, he was intended to be Canada's answer to Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer. In Canada in the 1950s, he was a massive holiday icon, and is considered Canada's most successful advertising character.
GA6PJ TIL that Hurricane by Bob Dylan, A protest song about a black man falsely trialed has led to protest about the case, which resulted in overturn of the case and the release of Rubin "Hurricane" Carter
Bg66x TIL that the coordinates Walter White hid on lotto ticket (N 34, 59′, 20″, W 106, 36′, 52), point straight to Q studios in Albuquerque, where Breaking Bad was filmed.
PDJw TIL that the pizza Margherita owes its name to Italy’s Queen Margherita who in 1889 visited the Pizzeria Brandi in Naples. The Pizzaiolo (pizza maker) on duty that day, Rafaele Esposito created a pizza for the Queen that contained the three colors of the new Italian flag.