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TIL museums have more than half a million Native American skeletons in their collections, even after returning 50,000 skeletons for burial

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4aYN TIL of Erik Wolpaw, an employee at Valve that was sick for an extended period of time. Gabe Newell surprised him by offering an extended leave with pay. “Your job is to get better,” Newell said. “That is your job description at Valve. So go home to your wife and come back when you are better.”
8eg4K Til Kanno Sugako, an Anarcho Feminist, is the first woman with the status of political prisoner to be executed in the history of modern Japan.
5YpkQ TIL billboards are banned in four states: Alaska, Hawaii, Maine, and Vermont.
4XVEN TIL that the scene with Morgan Freeman throwing a baseball in ‘The Shawshank Redemption’ took over nine hours to shoot. Freeman didn’t complain once throughout the entire ordeal, showed up the next day with his arm in a sling, and continued shooting.
QJgVX TIL that at least twice, CNN correspondent Sanjay Gupta has been on location reporting, but needed to step in as a neurosurgeon: once on a Marine in Iraq, the other on a little girl injured during the Haitian earthquake.