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R9n6 TIL in chess, the queen used to be a relatively weak piece that reflected moral inferiority; that changed around 1500 with the rise of Queen Isabella of Spain.
JYg1v TIL in 1977, Argentina flew a pregnant woman to their military base in Antarctica so she could have first baby to ever be born on the continent. In doing so, the Argentine government believed this would give them an undisputable claim on the land, but the claim is not recognized internationally.
16gW4 TIL that approximately 65000 tonnes of chemical warfare agents (CWA), for example, mustard gas, Clark I, Clark II, Lewisite and Adamsite, were dumped in Baltic Sea and Skagerrak from 1947 to 1948.
orN8 TIL, 90% of U.S. media: television, radio, news; is owned by only 6 corporations. One of which owns the top newspaper on 3 continents: The Wall Street Journal, The Sun, and The Australian.
rmwW TIL that every treasurer of the United States since 1949 has been a woman