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TIL that Utah is considered a sanctuary state by the ICE

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1WB7 TIL the term Indian Giver stems from a cultural misunderstanding. Pilgrams thought they were getting gifts. Indians thought they were bartering.
5YgLp TIL that in the 1930s Austria established its own Fascist dictatorship with its own version of the Swastika whose leader, Engelbert Dollfuss was assassinated on Hitler's orders in 1934.
JYavV TIL that up to 25 percent of cowboys in the West during the later 19th century were black. Former slaves or born into a formerly enslaved family, they worked in an industry that despite facing inevitable racism was a generally less discriminatory than other industries at the time.
Kd4B TIL that Jamaica is the most homophobic place on earth
neA4d TIL locusts can exist in two states. Solitary and gregarious. In low populations, locusts behave as individuals. But in high populations they undergo polyphenism where they experience physiological and behavioral changes. Even their color can change when they form a swarm