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TIL African slave ownership was common enough among Native Americans that many slaves were forced to walk the Trail of Tears with their Cherokee masters

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7AeL TIL if China, India and Brazil would adopt Euro 6 standards for vehicle emissions by 2015, NASA says the world’s particulates could be reduced by about 85 percent
x6rnD TIL Steve Irwin, the Crocodile Hunter, started wrestling crocodiles at 9 years old to keep local boat ramps safe
4XEVa TIL about the Oh-My-God Particle, a proton traveling at about 99.99999999999999999999951% the speed of light. It is the fastest moving object ever recorded and as it hit the atmosphere it carried the kinetic energy equivalent to a baseball traveling at 50MPH, all in one particle.
yXJM TIL that Conan O'Brien has majored in history and literature, graduated with a magna cum laude from Harvard University, and wrote his senior thesis on the use of children as symbols in the works of William Faulkner and Flannery O'Connor
RrX9 TIL The mouth of the Chesapeake Bay is the site of a 35-million year old impact crater and that shaped the bay