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TIL that the first female US senator, Rebecca Latimer Felton, was also the last congressperson to ever own slaves.

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E1M40 TIL the Mediterranean island country of Malta has been inhabited since around 5900 BCE, and has been ruled by the Phoenicians, Carthaginians, Romans, Greeks, Arabs, Normans, Aragonese, Knights of Malta, French and British, all before becoming independent in 1964.
p80XA TIL There was an (in)famous red light district in Boston. It was called: the Combat Zone.
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