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TIL Canada’s 1886 Indian Act defined “person” as “an individual other than an Indian”

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PgnE TIL that literally has become an example of an autoantonym – a word with two opposite meanings
epjGL TIL that even after losing muscle, extra nuclei from past training stick around, making it easier to build muscle back.
XE8ED TIL WWII Japan's production of the famed Zero was hampered because the Mitsubishi factory in which they were made did not have its own airfield. Completed Zeros were hauled by oxen to an airfield 24 miles away. A shortage in feed supply starved the oxen, stranding newly made aircraft at the factory.
ANakn TIL: Nissan made a cybertruck back in '01
VQj4 TIL that the brainwaves of Dr Carl Sagan’s wife, Ann Druyan, are included in the Voyager 1 & 2 probes, making them the only human thoughts to ever leave the solar system