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TIL Martin van Buren was the first president born in the newly formed United States, but spoke Dutch as his first language.

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J1Qwk TIL in the USA, "medical aid in dying" is legal in eleven jurisdictions: California, Colorado, District of Columbia, Hawaii, Montana, Maine,New Jersey, New Mexico, Oregon, Vermont, and Washington.
pYZVQ TIL that the 1783 Treaty of Paris, which ended the American Revolutionary War, was actually one of a series of treaties known as the Peace of Paris, which included two treaties signed in Versailles with France and Spain.
m1djv TIL German mental calculator Gert Mittring broke the world record for taking roots when he successfully calculated the 89247th root of a million-digit number.
VQPB TIL that fatherless homes produce: 71% of our high school drop-outs, 85% of the kids with behavioral disorders, 90% of our homeless and runaway children, 75% of the adolescents in drug abuse programs, and 85% of the kids in juvenile detention facilities
6E4RQ TIL Rosemary Kennedy was probably never mentally ill at all. Her lobotomy was most likely as a result of the rigid expectations placed on her.