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TIL Massachusetts -- famous for its bad drivers and bad roads -- has the lowest road fatality rate of any state

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v1w87 TIL that President Martin Van Buren is the first and only US President to speak English as a second language, being Dutch his first. He is also the first president that was born after America's Independence from the United Kingdom.
RkD7 TIL that Jackie Robinson was not the first baseball player to break the color barrier. Nearly a full year earlier Eddie Klep became the first white man to play in the Negro Leagues.
XELMj TIL about Mary of Woodstock, who was made a nun at 7, went to live by herself in comfortable private quarters, and travelled widely around the country with no husband or kids. Every year she was given the equivalent of $250,000, twice the usual allowance for clothes, and 5,120 gallons of wine.
D1waP TIL: The United States tested nuclear weapons in Micronesia and used their population as live guinea pigs to study the effects of long-term radiation exposure.
M7ev0 TIL the Mullet haircut was used as a practical military tactic among Vikings and Romans. Long hair in the back kept soldiers warm on the battlefield, while shorter hair in front was less likely to get yanked by an adversary.