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TIL that the Philippines was under American rule. Spain ceded the Philippines to America for $20 million.

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gMOrD TIL of Laura Bridgman, the first deaf-blind American child to gain a significant education in the English language, fifty years before the more famous Helen Keller. Boston, Massachusetts, c. 1845.
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