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TIL: Saundra Williams was the first Miss Black America

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NXLnE TIL about Gungywamp, an archeological site in Connecticut consisting of ruins and artifacts that is theorized to have evidence of Pre-Columbian European settlement of the Americas, including 5th century Irish monks or Norsemen
5VeMn TIL: Operación Milagro - The Cuban international medical aid program for treating eye problems, which has cured over 3 million people around the world
R8Ra TIL in 1997, the pilot of an A-10 attack jet turned off his radio and transponder for no apparent reason and flew hundreds of miles off course during a training mission, later crashing into a mountainside in Colorado. No explanation for the pilot’s actions was ever found.
v1mkR TIL that, while filming "Polar Bear Family and Me", Gordon Buchanan was forced to sit tight whilst a seemingly hungry polar bear tried to get him by clawing, biting and rocking his protective pod
QNPOd TIL Capri-Sun is named after the Italian island of Capri