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TIL: Massachusetts Governor and Boston Mayor James M. Curley was denied a spot in the Massachusetts delegation to the Democratic National Convention in 1932, so he engineered his selection as a delegate for Puerto Rico under the alias of Alcalde Jaime Curleo

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wQOJ TIL Passengers leaving Hawaii on Alaska Airlines can travel with one “properly packaged” box of pineapples as checked baggage for free.
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d8j08 TIL At 1:10 a.m. on May 9, 1945, night owls in the USSR heard a radio report that Nazi Germany had officially surrendered to the Soviet Union. Rather than wait until morning to celebrate, citizens took to the streets in their pajamas. 22 hours later, the entire country had run out of vodka.