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TIL - According to the Dead Sea Scrolls, Goliath was 6'9", not 9'9"…

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6E4PY TIL that in 1980, the Supreme Court ruled that the US unjustly took 73 million acres of tribal land from the Sioux, including the sacred Black Hills. The Supreme Court the US to pay recompense totaling over $1 billion. The Sioux have never taken the money, instead demanding the return of the land.
LkBK9 TIL that Kendrick Lamar was the first rapper to ever win the Pulitzer Price. This is the first time the award has gone to non-classical or non-jazz musical work.
wL7Oo TIL that there is a unit of risk called micromort, which is defined as one-in-a-million chance of death.
d8yLQ TIL of Gef, an apparent spirit that haunted a family on the Isle of Mann in the 1930s, which took the form of an 'extra extra clever' 'ghost in the form of a mongoose'.
e0xRk TIL the term "ass clown" was coined by, and has become a part of our lexicon, courtesy of the movie Office Space