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TIL according to tribal lore, the Choctaw tribe settled in the land of present-day Alabama after sailing across the Gulf of Mexico from the Yucatán peninsula. DNA evidence supports this origin story.

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Z8ge4 TIL that in 1968, the US army accidentally killed 6,000 sheep on ranch land north of its biological and chemical weapons testing facility known as the Dugway Proving Ground. The Skull Valley Sheep Kill - as it came to be known, was caused by the open air testing of a highly toxic nerve agent "VX".
KYKbB TIL the origin of the Blues Brothers was a Saturday Night Live sketch in 1976 in which Dan Aykroyd and John Belushi performed the 1957 Slim Harpo song "I'm a King Bee". They were dressed in bee costumes.
9YgdG TIL that AAAA batteries exist.
VMNwB TIL about the 1980 Mundialito or “Little World Cup” hosted by Uruguay in commemoration of the 50th anniversary of the first World Cup tournament. Uruguay won.
xVQjg TIL: about an open-sourced multiplayer space-station simulation called Space Station 13. Originally developed as an atmospherics simulator in 2003, it was eventually open-sourced in 2006. Contributors have made regular additions for over 15 years.