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TIL The last surviving WWI Veteran was a woman.

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MeO9W TIL West Virginia State Board of Education v. Barnette (1943) deemed it unconstitutional to force ordinary citizens to participate in patriotic rituals. The initial case was for refusal due to religious reasons, but the ruling was generalized to allow all forms of refusal.
BryrK TIL in South Korea, a woman obtained her driver's license on her 960th try.
ggRb TIL That in 1959 two pilots managed to keep a plane airborne for 64 days.
BgZdW TIL Violet Constance Jessop was a women who not only survived the sinking of the Titanic in 1912 but also survived the sinking of Titanic’s sister ship the Britannic in 1916, but not before surviving a collision the eldest of the three sister ships the RMS Olympic had with HMS Hawke in 1911.
KYljQ TIL Theodore Roosevelt's wife and mother both died on the very same day of unrelated health issues