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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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LkAlV TIL that the middle finger is offensive because the finger represents a penis, and the curled fingers around it represent the testicles. By flipping someone off, you are offering them a phallic gesture.
05eR TIL - Ford’s invention of the moving assembly line allowed cars to be created so quickly that “Japan Black” was the only paint that could dry fast enough to keep up, thus his famous quote, “Any customer can have a car painted any colour that he wants so long as it is black”.
4XKZR TIL in one of hundreds of his dangerous visits to the Chernobyl disaster site, nuclear inspector Artur Korneyev was able to take a photo of himself in 1996 near the Elephant Foot, a radioactive mass that initially gave off more than 10,000 roentgens an hour
loE1N TIL about Dr Clara Immerwahr, the first woman to get a PhD in Chemistry in Germany in 1900. She assisted with the weaponisation of Mustard gas, which was subsequently used on the frontlines in 1915. During a party to celebrate it's successful use, she committed suicide by shooting herself.
O51a TIL at age 47 Al Capone regressed to the mental capacity of a 12 year-old-child due to brain damage caused by the neurosyphilis and spent the last years of his life in his Florida mansion raving about Communists, foreigners, and Bugs Moran, who he was convinced was plotting to kill him.