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TIL The US awarded the Sioux $102 million for taking their land to build Mount Rushmore. But the Sioux didn’t want the money; they wanted their land back. The money has sat in trust accounts, accumulating interest. Today about $1 billion waits untouched in accounts at the Department of the Treasury.

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18lW TIL, Kim Cattrall, while filming Star Trek IV: The Undiscovered Country, posed for photos on the Enterprise bridge wearing nothing but Vulcan ears. Fearing harm to the franchise, Leonard Nimoy had the photos destroyed.
ja4v TIL when 50 deaf Nicaraguan children, who didn’t know sign language, were put in a school together they developed their own sign language. Scientists are still studying the unique spontaneous appearance of language and its ongoing development and introduction of grammar.
dGrK TIL that in WWII nine American pilots crashed into a small island in Japan called Chichijima. 8 of the 9 were murdered, 5 of those 8 were cannibalized. The lone survivor was George H.W. Bush.
P10We TIL Both VISA and SAAB are examples of recursive acronyms, acronyms that refer to themselves. VISA stands for "Visa International Service Association" and SAAB stands for "Saab Automobile AB."
Qw7X TIL rats like to be tickled. However their vocalizations in response that resemble laughter fall in a range between 20-100khz which is outside the range of human hearing.