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TIL: The Clovis people were not the first Americans. The find supports growing archaeological evidence found in recent years that disputes the notion that the Americas were originally populated by a single migration of people from Asia about 13,000 years ago.

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jgyj TIL in 1977 singer Tom Waits was arrested outside a coffee shop for trying to stop men from bullying other patrons.These men were plainclothes officers,and Waits was charged with disturbing the peace.Waits disputed the charge,was found not guilty,and successfully sued the police dept. for $7,500
b75a TIL that part of the reason that the cereal Oreo O’s was discontinued was due to the fact that it was the leading cause of child obesity in Spain
jNJ6p TIL that Robin Williams had Diffuse Lewy Body Dementia and Parkinson's which [his wife believes] led him to kill himself. His wife says depression had very little to do with it.
oB7wK TIL that in 1959, Martin Luther King Jr. made an impromptu stop at the Tohono O'odham Indian Reservation to meet with tribal leaders whom he was "fascinated" by. This visit would later lead Dr. King to speak out against the government's treatment, both past & present, of Native Americans.
4kMyw TIL that Louisiana law mistakenly lists and restricts a variety of edible groundcherry as a hallucinogen, despite its long history of use as food by native peoples