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TIL Native Americans continued practicing slavery after the Civil War, until they were forced to abolish it by the US Government.

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eDNg TIL The Church of Satan has some pretty sane and reasonable ground rules
YO6A TIL of the ‘Secret War’, where the CIA recruited 50% of the Hmong population to fight for the US in the Vietnam War. Afterwards, they were completely abandoned.
xV8vb TIL: The song "Runaway Train" by the band Soul Asylum before the age of the internet and social media helped find over 25 missing people by featuring pictures of them throughout the music video.
DAjY TIL: That Jimmy McMillan, founder of the Rent is Too Damn High Party, was a Vietnam war veteran, R&B recording artist, private investigator and mail carrier.
1bGW TIL that elephants also grieve like us.They shed tears and even try to ‘bury’ their dead.