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TIL Kansas is actually flatter than a pancake

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lmga TIL a woman was elected to the US house of representatives in 1916, four years before women won the right to vote nationwide
4XBMg TIL Bill Gates succeeded in his mission to build a Toilet to help combat the sanitary crisis across multiple parts of Africa and India. Costing $350, its powered by worms, and doesnt require to be hooked up to a sewer system.
DMgJ TIL Afghanistan, Pakistan, and Saudi Arabia all have a higher proportion of women in parliament than the USA does in congress
jy9j TIL Disney once threatened to sue three daycare centers for painting Disney characters on their walls.
QN7yE TIL the Geographic Center of the contiguous states of the U.S is about 2 miles northwest of Lebanon, Kansas. It was officially established by the U.S Geological Survey and is a point where a plane map of the 48 states would balance if it were of uniform thickness.