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TIL There has been only one Female Medal of Honor Recipient: Dr. Mary Edwards Walker

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xVy4o TIL NASA launched a satellite after the USSR launched Sputnik, and it crashed in 3 seconds— so the press dubbed it ‘Kaputnik’
o9Po TIL a year after Benjamin Franklin conducted his lightning experiment, a man named Georg Richmann attempted to conduct his own lightning experiment and was killed.
ZyNR TIL Cleveland, Ohio has set it’s river on fire… thirteen times.
xVVeo TIL the shoe company Vans made clown shoes first as a marketing gimmick, then for real clowns, although the number of shoes produced remains a mystery.
R75nj TIL On July 16, 2186 there is predicted to be the longest solar eclipse during the current 10,000 year period, from 4000 BC to 6000 AC.