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TIL Cordell Hull was Secretary of State under FDR for 11 years and won the Nobel Peace Prize for establishing the UN

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YpYgP TIL Soviet Union spanned across 11 timezones with an area of 8.6million square miles with east to west spanning over 6500 miles and north to south spanning 4500 miles. Russia, the largest part of USSR remains the largest country in the world with an area of 6.5million
wLnOW TIL of Paige Hunter, a UK young woman who has prevented at least 6 suicides by tying over 40 handwritten notes of hope to a bridge infamous for suicides.
oB1gY TIL that Russia offered to sell Alaska to Liechtenstein, and only offered it to the USA after they declined.
e0kZ5 TIL about Dr. Carlo Urbani who first identified the SARS coronavirus, is credited with triggering the rapid response that helped bring the outbreak to an end, and lost his own life to the virus just one month later.
YloG TIL that dinosaurs never stepped foot in Florida. The peninsula was submerged underwater until millions of years after they existed.