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0nnM TIL the term “gerrymandering” derives from Gov. Elbridge Gerry who in 1812 redrew the Massachusetts senatorial districts to favor his Federalist Party. One of these redrawn districts looked like a salamander, thus Gerry + salamander = gerrymander
jevn TIL: Under the Third Reich, Aryan mothers who devoted their lives to having children were awarded the Ehrenkreuz der Deutschen Mutter (Mother’s Cross) and were respected civil servants who were saluted on the streets by Hitler’s Youth.
69Yol TIL The Judy Bolton books 1932-1967 by Margaret Sutton is the longest-lasting juvenile mystery series written by an individual author
yQZ0e TIL that Franklin D Roosevelt's grandfather Warren Delano made a fortune smuggling opium into China around the time of the first Opium War
Gj4J TIL the T-shirt was invented in 1904 and marketed to bachelors who couldn’t sew or replace buttons