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TIL That First Lady Abigail Powers Filmore was the Teacher to 13th US President Millard Filmore Prior to marrying him

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b64LE TIL in 2020 a 477-mile long lightning bolt was recorded spanning from Texas through Louisiana and into Mississippi
VMo6D TIL Sweden was the first country to put a eugenic state into practice before WW2 and the first state that set up for racial biology, an estimated 63,000 women were sterilised who were deemed to not have ‘Aryan-like’ genes, it ended in 1973 and compensation has been paid since 2000 to any victims
MabV TIL that the Twenty-seventh Amendment was ratified after an undergraduate student at Texas University wrote a paper on the amendment. His instructor gave him a ‘C’ calling his idea “unrealistic”. The student then started a letter writing campaign to State Legislatures to get it passed.
J1dX4 TIL Around 500,000 maya peoples live in the United States
6EPW7 TIL of Salty and Roselle, two separate guide dogs who were in the World Trade Centre during 9/11. They were on the 71st and 78th floor of Tower 1 respectively. They each led their owners safely out of the burning tower amidst the chaos, and both owners and dogs survived.