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TIL: Since 1990- South Dakota has celebrated Native American Day instead of Columbus Day

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dDal9 TIL Mel Gibson is actually American and moved to Australia as a young boy and eventually decided to stay in Australia for good. I always asummed he was an Australian that did an amazing "American accent"
QJKG9 TIL that author Tom Clancy died in 2013 but his name is still used on new novels written by ghostwriters.
5YPQ9 TIL that some 430,000 years ago, high in the Atapuerca Mountains of northern Spain, a lethal assault was committed. The victim, a young adult Neanderthal, received two blows to the head, just above the left eye.
5V5MP TIL: The B-52s performed the theme for The Flintstones and appeared in The Filtstones movie as "The BC-52s".