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TIL ln 1847 the Choctaw nation sent $170 to Ireland for the potato famine, 16 years after the Trail of Tears. In 2016 a statue in Midleton, Ireland was erected symbolizing the bond between them.

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nnrd TIL the “Spanish Flu” was so called because during WWI the warring countries censored the news of the plague to maintain morale while neutral Spanish didn’t.
grVo9 TIL about the Rainbow Baby. A rainbow baby is a baby that is born after the mother has a pregnancy loss. The name draws on the symbol of the rainbow, representing beauty after a dark time. August 22 is also known as rainbow baby day.
oBvn8 TIL the movie Angels with Filthy Souls, that the character, Kevin, in Home Alone watches and uses was made for the movie and is not an actual full length movie.
xrB TIL that the most expensive liquor in the world retails for 1.5 million USD, and when sold will set a Guinness World Record.
ne6QY TIL the US government helped to cover up and granted immunity to a Japanese unit which conducted horrifying and lethal human experiments on 200k-500k Chinese civilians during WW2 in exchange for the medical data they had gathered.