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lymK
TIL that in 1893 Hawaii’s monarchy was overthrown when a group of businessmen and sugar planters forced the queen to abdicate. The coup led to the dissolving of the Kingdom of Hawaii two years later, its annexation as a U.S. territory and eventual admission as the 50th state in the union.
4MKo
TIL that Franklin Roosevelt was the first sitting US president to ride aboard an airplane, over 40 years after its invention.