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TIL that President Calvin Coolidge was adopted into the Sioux nation after his signing of the Indian Citizenship Act of 1924.

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m6Yv TIL that, by examining high-resolution satellite imagery with algorithms developed via trial-and-error, Sarah Parcak and her team have discovered 17 pyramids, 1,000 tombs, and over 3,100 settlements in Egypt alone. She now wants to crowdsource “space archaeology” to prevent looting of ancient sites.
DYmD TIL that on Saturn’s moon Titan, mountain ranges are named after mountains & characters from JRR Tolkien’s Middle-Earth.
e0DWL TIL your brain is able to make a decision for you seconds before you become aware of the fact that you are making a decision
NXxM TIL: History Channal Pawnstars is Fake.
6EYLJ TIL that during WWII, French-Moroccan soldiers kidnapped, defiled and/or killed 2,000 - 60,000 Italian female civilians in what is considered one of the worst war crimes of the war