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TIL the highest paid across all U.S. Department of Defense employees are three football coaches of the service branch teams

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b9lX7 TIL The first black governor of a U.S. state was in 1872. The second was in 1990.
R7rW8 TIL that originally squirrels only lived in forests, staying away from people, and were intentionally introduced into city parks, the first being Franklin Square in Philadelphia in 1847.
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