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TIL that, during the American Civil War, major Native American tribes endorsed the Confederates because they held slaves.

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5go8 TIL there is a man in California serving a life sentence for shoplifting three pairs of socks
e0be4 TIL that in Abraham Lincoln's time in the Illinois legislature, he once leapt out of a first-story window in a failed attempt to prevent a quorum from being present. The doors of the Capitol had been locked to prevent legislators from fleeing.
EXJ0 TIL Vincent Van Gogh shot himself in the chest with a 7mm revolver. He walked home, saw doctors but there was no surgeon to remove the bullet. The doctors left him alone smoking his pipe in his room. He died at 37 of infection two days later and his last words were “The sadness will last forever”
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