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TIL smallpox infested blankets were never given to Native Americans by the US Army, or anyone. Some scientist even tried their best to provide the native populations with vaccines

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8eP78 TIL that the Hundred Acre Wood in the original Winnie-the-Pooh books isn't the name of the forest where Pooh and all his friends live. Rather, it is a specific place inside The Forest, centered on Owl's house
5xPn TIL A respected medical examiner in Shelby County, Tennessee was found handcuffed to a window guard, wrapped in barbed wire, with a motion-sensitive bomb strapped to his chest and lye burns to his face. Detectives investigating the case concluded that he did it to himself.
DQeVJ TIL that the APA declassified homosexuality as a mental illness in 1973
LLOV TIL that in the 80s (a decade before the WWW started to come on its own) 25 million people in France went on-line to bank, check the weather, chat, make reservations, socialize, check stock prices, and also for porn. No computer: they used a free Minitel terminal.
VBMk4 TIL that during the French Revolution, Adrienne de La Fayette, the wife of Marquis de La Fayette, was imprisoned. However, before her planned execution, Elizabeth Monroe, the wife of Future President James Monroe, intervened. Not wanting to cut ties with James Monroe, France did not execute her.