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TIL Cheese originally started being dyed yellow and orange in the 17th century to fool people into thinking it was a higher quality

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v1Wxj TIL in the year 1900, the black plague came to California, causing years of politicians and businessmen denying the existence of any plague while scientists tried to stop its spread. At least 172 people died over the following 8 years. There is still an average of 7 cases every year in the USA.
loLda TIL that exactly 190 years ago, The Indian Removal Act was passed, allowing U.S. President Andrew Jackson to grant Native American tribes unsettled western prairie land in exchange for their settlements within the borders of extant U.S. states, thereby clearing the way for further white settlement.
GYVog TiL The average millennial credit score is 659
Kpj9 TIL the bird Americans call a “turkey” is called an India in Turkey, and a Peru in Portugese.
gM5Mb TIL When he heard that his works were not among those burned by the nazis and were in fact recomended by the regime, author Oskar Graf wrote an open letter titled "burn me!", stating his dissapointment at being white listed and asking for his books to be burned