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TIL Uber Hasn't Had An Effect On Drunken-Driving Deaths

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e05l6 TIL in 1980 the US Supreme Court ruled 8-1 that the Sioux Nation had been deprived of rights granted in Fort Laramie Treaty of 1868. The Sioux rejected the decision⁠—monetary compensation was not enough
grgAL TIL that Ingush women traditionally wear a high cap called a kurkhars, whose shape is derived from the Phrygian cap of antiquity. Originally, these headdresses were made from tanned and dyed bull scrotum.
6EWZY (TIL) Haudenosaunee ironworkers from the Six Nations of the Iroquois, mostly Mohawks, raised and riveted the beams of New York’s iconic buildings. The World Trade Center was built by 500 men, 200 of whom were Mohawks. And, in the famous 1932 Lunch Atop A Skyscraper" photo 4 of the men are Mohawks.
AR87 TIL The United States is the most armed nation with 88.8 guns per 100 people.
5YKMn TIL that the biblical story of Susanna and the Elders also appears in the One Thousand and One Nights