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TIL Democrat Al Smith lost the 1928 presidential election due to widespread anti-Catholic bigotry. Conservatives feared a Catholic president would abolish the Separation of Church and State, outlaw private ownership of the Bible, ban Protestant churches, and abolish Prohibition.
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TIL that Titanic victim John Jacob Astor IV published a sci-fi novel in 1894 about life in the year 2000; it includes descriptions of a world wide telephone network, solar power, air travel and space travel to Saturn and Jupiter.
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TIL that India's name is based on Indus River which flows through Pakistan.