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TIL Empress Leopoldina from the house of Habsburg was the first woman to become head of state in an independent country in the Americas. She was one of the masterminds behind Brazil independence and the yellow in the flag symbolizes her house of Habsburg. She was also behind German migrations there.

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yQPV TIL Jacklyn H. Lucas, who joined the Marines when he was 14, stormed Iwo Jima when he was 17, and is one of the few people in the world to have fallen on not one, but two grenades to save comrades, and survive.
Md7V TIL wasps are extremely valuable in horticulture since they prey upon almost every pest insect and are used as a natural form of pest control
lo4NK TIL on November 24, 2021, NASA launched its DART Mission to test propulsion technology designed to alter the course of an asteroid. The unmanned mission will intercept a moonlet of the asteroid Didymos in late September 2022, attempting to change the orbital period and thus change Didymos’ momentum
l4XK TIL If you thoroughly shuffle a deck of playing cards, you’ll end up with a sequence which has (probably) never existed before. There are 8,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000, 000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 different combinations.
YR6x TIL That a photo exists of a man born 246 years ago. That man is John Quincy Adams (b. 1767)