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TIL that there is a department store chain in Australia named "Target" that has a red bulls-eye as its logo and is in no way affiliated with the American company of the same name

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ydvJ TIL Katharine Lee Bates, author of ‘America the Beautiful’ was a lesbian who left the Republican party in 1924 over its growing xenophobia
71AO TIL that women in America began smoking cigarettes in public thanks to Edward Bernays, nephew of Sigmund Freud, who used his uncle’s theories and press release technique to give women this freedom. He was actually employed by a tobacco corporation which needed to sell more.
JYVa8 TIL Director James Cameron sketched the nude portrait of Kate Winslet used in the movie "Titanic."
gMpmX TIL “The road not taken” by Robert Frost, was actually written to mock an indecisive friend and intended to inspire no one.
gMGVX TIL at the 1904 St. Louis Olympics there was a "Savage Games" known as Anthropology Days staged. Native Americans and "ethnic tribesman" from many countries were shipped in to compete against each other with the purpose of displaying White superiority.