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TIL indigenous Americans made pictorial calendars called “Winter counts” that recorded events or information important to their tribe.

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v1Yy8 TIL The lyrics for the MAS*H theme song "Suicide is Painless" were written by Robert Altman's 14-year-old son because it needed to be "the stupidest song ever written". His son wrote the lyrics in 5 minutes and earned over $1 million.
V0JZ TIL a jury of 6 whites and 6 blacks ruled in 1999 that Martin Luther King, Jr. was assassinated as a result of a conspiracy, most likely by the police and CIA, and covered up by the FBI.
wLPoM TIL that Sperm Whales’ sounds are so loud (under water) they can burst your ear drums or even “vibrate” you to death.
rDod TIL in Titanic, Jack and Rose could both have survived if Rose took off her lifejacket and put it under the plank. It wasn’t a question of room, but buoyancy, and the lifejacket would have given the needed buoyancy for them both to survive. Some ingenuity would have saved them.
epRjE TIL that the Australian government failed to act on HTLV-1, a retrovirus that affects over 40% of the population of some indigenous communities in Central Australia. Between 5% and 10% of those with the virus will develop a rapidly fatal form of leukaemia.