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TIL Women’s right to vote passed thanks to the vote of Harry Burn, a 23-year old representative. Although he opposed the amendment, his mother convinced him to approve it with a note that said “Don’t forget to be a good boy”

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ba4N TIL: Chicago, “The Windy City”, got that nickname not because of its weather, but because of its politicians bragging about the city to win the 1893 World’s Fair. Its average wind speed of 10.3 mph is not even exceptional relative to other American cities: Boston- 12.4mph, and NYC- 9.3mph.
gjlW TIL of the “Method of Loci”, a memory technique where a person creates an imaginary structure or town within their head, and uses objects within the buildings as representations of real life items and ideas.
x6rw TIL There is a seriall killer that killed 110-300+ young girls. He served 14 years in prison, and is a free man to this day.
oBP8E TIL when the SR-71 was retired in 1990, it went ahead and set four new world speed records on its way to the museum.
GAlrQ TIL that in December 1942 during World War II, President Franklin D. Roosevelt ended all voluntary enlistment into the U.S. military by men aged 18 to 37 to provide for more efficient allocation of the nation’s manpower through the draft