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TIL Five Native American Tribes recognize same-sex marriage

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yQ0Jl TIL after the Kent State shootings students often got a hostile reaction upon returning home. Some were told that more students should have been killed to teach student protesters a lesson; some students were disowned by their families.
4XKXg TIL that film director Akira Kurosawa hired expert archers to shoot real arrows at Toshiro Mifune while he dodged them in choreographed movements. Mifune’s visible terror is quite real.
Z8PAo TIL MacLean's magazine ranked Sir Mackenzie Bowell as Canada’s greatest bearded prime minister. It was polar bear white and somehow, despite being considerably wider than his face, a near-perfect half-circle
KYJPG TIL Lord of the Rings: Return of the King won every Academy Award it was nominated for. With 11 wins, it made history as the highest clean sweep in Oscars history.
x6vw1 TIL Jewish philosopher Franz Rosenzweig's last sentence was meticulously typed by his wife as she recited the alphabet and he told her when to stop but he didn't finish as he was interrupted and it concerned a "point of all points, which the Lord has truly revealed to me in my sleep"