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TIL of the Havasupai people, a Native American tribe who have lived in the Grand Canyon for over 800 years.

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d8P58 TIL: Isa Hayes, who was one of the marines who raised the flag on Iwo Jima, played himself in the movie The Sands of Iwo Jima starring John Wayne.
vJOR TIL that George clooney wanted to be on an episode of south park, so trey Parker and Matt stone had him be the voice of stan’s dog sparky. He only got to make dog sounds.
8eXOV TIL that in the late 1990s a revolutionary guerrilla group in Myanmar called God’s Army was founded and led by two chain smoking 9 year-old twin brothers.
GYjeg TIL in 1943 after Naval intelligence provided them with his exact itinerary, US fighter pilots successfully shot down a transport plane carrying Admiral Yamamoto, commander of the Combined Fleet of the Imperial Japanese Navy. Yamamoto was believed to be responsible for the attack on Pearl Harbor
LQ6kr TIL That in 2005 Cheyenne storytellers broke over a century of silence to discuss the Battle of Little Big Horn. According to them the blow which took Colonel Custer from his horse and would lead to his death was struck by Buffalo Calf Road Woman who had accompanied her husband into battle.