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TIL A religion on a pacific island worships American soldiers and prays for their return

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O9bX TIL that in 1962 the US military suggested committing acts of terrorism on US soil to create popular support for a war against Cuba. A horrified President Kennedy personally fired the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff over the incident.
YpdDZ TIL that old timers in Alaskans are known as “sourdoughs.” This is because Experienced miners and other settlers frequently carried a pouch of starter either around their neck or on a belt to keep it active in freezing Alaska winters.
5nE8 TIL Suicide rates among Native Americans (especially young men) is 70% higher than the suicide rate of the general US population
R7Z9 TIL that Japan’s Yakuza provided relief for the 2011 Tōhoku tsunami and 1995 Kobe earthquake faster than their own government
GAwBN TIL Using machine learning, researchers have been able to decode what fruit bats are saying--surprisingly, they mostly argue with one another.