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TIL Bessie Coleman was an American Aviator and the first black woman to earn a pilot's license.Because flying schools in the United States denied her entry,she taught herself French and moved to France,earning her license from France's well-known Caudron Brother's School of Aviation in just 7 months

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orgR TIL that electricity prices can drop below zero in Europe
0wMD1 TIL that Montana is the only US state constitutionally mandated to teach and preserve Native American history and culture.
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