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TIL that Native Americans use to manipulate young trees to offer direction to important battlefields, graves and other significant landmarks. After hundreds of years you can still find many of them today.

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kOBO4 TIL That Harry Houdini stipulated in his will that all his props should be "destroyed and burned" after the death of his brother. His brother sold them instead. In 1995, a fire destroyed the museum where the props were kept.
4XAbN TIL of Anthony Mascarenhas, a Pakistani journalist who dared to write the truth about the atrocities committed by Pakistan in Bangladesh in 1971. He flew to UK to ‘visit a sick sister’ and agreed to get it run in the Sunday Times. The story ran the day after he snuck his family out of Pakistan.
wLBDW TIL of Nedelin catastrophe. it was a launchpad accident that occurred on 24 October 1960 at Baikonur test range. explosion occurred when the second stage engine ignited accidentally, killing an unknown number (54-300) of personnel. the incident was covered up for 29 years, only to recognized in '89.
nYo9 TIL Mark Hamill voiced the pirate Captain Stickybeard in Codename: Kids Next Door, the ruler of the Fire Nation Fire Lord Ozai in Avatar: The Last Airbender, the evil Skeleton King in Super Robot Monkey Team Hyperforce Go!, multiple roles in Metalocalypse and the groundskeeper Skips in Regular Show.
QJLPp TIL in 1974, the British Army took over Heathrow Airport. Although it was publicly said to be practice against an IRA plot, PM Wilson and the government had no knowledge of the exercise. It was later revealed that the British Army was planning a coup, and it was a trial run.