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TIL that Alexander Hamilton, in addition to helping write the Constitution and being first Treasury Secretary, also was the commander of the entire U.S. Army for six months.

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BroXx TIL At one point in August 1971, the Pittsburgh Pirates became the first professional team to field nine players who were either black or Latino. Coincidentally, this was the same year they won the World Series.
D5BJ TIL Director Victor Fleming took 17 year old Judy Garland aside and slapped her in the face while telling her ‘Now darling, this is serious" because she couldn’t stop laughing during the scene where Dorothy meets the Lion in “The Wizard of Oz”
mxwGy TIL Indian man sued his parents for giving birth to him.
9Yobr TIL Georgia has been described as "the best corruption-buster in the world." The country has fought post-Soviet corruption through centralizing education, increasing the education and pay of bureaucrats, publicly arresting corrupt politicians, firing entire government departments, and more.
l7N71 TIL six-year-old Cao Qixian set a new women's world record by solving a 3x3x3 Rubik's Cube in an average time of 5.97 seconds. She became the first female ever to achieve an average time of under 6 seconds.