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TIL that Tulsa, Oklahoma is located in a Native American nation

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1xZW TIL in 1915, The New York Times invited unborn public officials to attend the opening of the Louis H. Eisenlohr box, 100 years from then. Which will be on the second saturday of 2015.
ZpKjQ TIL that the billionaire founder of Alibaba Jack Ma was rejected from every job he tried to apply for after college. For example, he applied to KFC and was the only person out of 24 applicants to not be hired.
rRN5y TIL that the Japanese practice of repairing broken pottery with gold or silver lacquer (Kintsukuroi) is based on the philosophy that the object is more beautiful because it was broken
E1Jew TIL that India installed the world's highest public telephone booth on the 20,000-foot Siachen Glacier in the Himalayas, so soldiers could phone home.
je8j TIL human DNA is 50% the same as bananas