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TIL Rhode Island, despite being the first colony to renounce the British Crown, never sent representatives to draft the Constitution and was the last of the thirteen colonies to ratify the Constitution.

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awAgL TIL of the "Jesus nut", a helicopter part so important, that if it were to fail in flight, to only thing left for the crew to do would be to pray to Jesus.
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