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TIL irish people were also enslaved in the americas

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rRLay TIL that the female stunt double from back to the future died this year after a shootout with her ex-husband after a failed ambush
DQeQJ TIL 80% of the US population lives in the eastern half of the continental US
0wXD5 TIL that when actress/singer Vanessa Williams was born, her parents announced her birth with "Here she is: Miss America." In 1984, she became the first African American to be crowned Miss America.
p8aVQ TIL after a Japanese Destroyer rammed the ship Naval Lieutenant John F. Kennedy was on during WW2, Kennedy swam for 5 hours towards an island while towing one of his badly burned crewman by clasping a scrap of the crewman's lifejacket between his teeth despite sustaining a back injury from the crash
6EDvl TIL in 1895 there were only TWO cars in the entire state of Ohio....and they crashed into each other