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TIL to clear the streets for President Kennedy’s Inauguration the army used flamethrowers to melt the snow.

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PYLYw TIL The Pentagon has over 20 fast food restaurants, which include KFC, Pizza Hut, Taco Bell, and many more
neQMY TIL in 1907 the US Supreme Court ruled that "a woman is not a person", barring a woman from practicing law. That same year, a woman arrested for drunkenness argued, and won her case, that she could not be charged because she was not a person and therefore not held accountable to the law.
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MeZ5m TIL, Satan's Village was a year round Christmas theme park and is considered the first franchised amusement park in history. At it's peak it featured reindeer shipped from Alaska and had 3 locations across the U.S