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TIL the first Asian Americans to fight on behalf of the US were Filipinos, referred to by General Andrew Jackson as "Manilamen" during the War of 1812. They were from a small fishing town called Saint Malo in Louisiana, which is also the first Filipino Settlement in the US.

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Brvay TIL that St. Claire of Assisi, who died in 1253 A.D., was named the Patron Saint of Television by Pope Pius XII in 1958, based on an incident in which she claimed the moving image and sound of a Catholic Mass had been miraculously projected on the wall of her room when she was too sick to attend.
epnLD TIL about windcatchers - towers to catch winds for natural ventilation of buildings without electricity. Windcatchers were an important architectural element in Persia and a solution for cooling. The warm air was cooled by the soil and water in the channel and released into the interior.
XvYk TIL that a man’s home was being foreclosed and the bank wouldn’t let him sell it. He responded by spending 2 weeks tearing down the $350K home he built.
W7LMo TIL that Terry Crews is a very talented illustrator. He apparently had an art scholarship before he had a football scholarship.
5VO7k TIL about Return to Dust, a Chinese film which ends with the dirt poor farmer’s suicide. In the censored version, it ended with a statement that the farmer “moved to his new home in the winter of 2011 and started his new life with the help of the government and the warm-hearted villagers.”