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TIL that the American Indian Wars only ended a 101 years ago in August 1924 with the conclusion of the Apache War and the granting of citizenship to all Amerindians in June 1924.

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Oo5e4 TIL that the telecom company Sprint was built on infrastructure belonging to the former Southern Pacific Railroad, where it gets its name from: Southern Pacific Railroad Internal Network Telecommunications (S.P.R.I.N.T.)
loXJ7 TIL Commercial lobstermen make a v-notch in the tail flippers of egg-bearing female lobsters they encounter while fishing as a means to identify and protect a known breeder in the population from harvest.
R5aBl TIL that Tchaikovsky's 1892 'The Nutcracker' ballet was based upon Alexander Dumas' 1844 'The Story of a Nutcracker' ('Histoire d'un casse-noisette' which was in turn based upon the original 1816 short story 'The Nutcracker and the Mouse King' by Prussian author E. T. A. Hoffmann.
lRrN TIL that during WWII American soldiers in the Pacific theatre would use the word ‘lollapalooza’ to challenge unidentified persons, on the premise that Japanese people often pronounce the letter L as R
BJrx TIL of a straight Christian man who spent a year of his life as a gay man, including coming out to his family, getting a job as a barista at a gay café and enlisting a friend to act as his boyfriend. The experience radically changed his view of religion and he now views homosexuality as acceptable.