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TIL that in 1919, William Little, an African American soldier who fought in World War I, was lynched because he refused to take off his uniform when he got back home to Blakey, Georgia.

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aWAN TIL that the number of users on Instagram is now larger than Twitter’s
7PWP TIL Canadians say “eh” because it is short for the Cree word “Eha” meaning “yes” or “I agree.” The Cree were some of the most prominent members of the Canadian fur trade, which shaped Canada’s history. Europeans adapted some of their behaviours, hence the saying eh.
Pmvw TIL That an Ohio judge sentenced a woman to sit in the smelliest area of a garbage dump for 8 hours, for animal abuse. “If you puke, you puke.”
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