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TIL the first female state senator in United States history ran against and beat her own husband in order to win her seat.

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Apol TIL Captain Robert Piché successfully piloted an emergency landing of his airplane when both engines failed on a trans-Atlantic flight. The plane also lost hydraulic power to the flaps, alternate brakes, and spoilers. He landed the plane in the Azores, saving the lives of all 306 people on board.
WmOd TIL When asked if Ireland should be reunified, 67% percent of Irish people (rep.) indicated they would be in favour. When expanded to say that this would include a rise in taxes, the figure drops to 32%.
Oog6X TIL that there is a Starbucks in CIA headquarters and the baristas are not allowed to ask for names
QmLM TIL a Chinese linguist created an entire 97 word essay using the same word, “shi”, only varying in tones, to prove why Chinese needs to be written using logograms and not phoenetically
OovyY TIL that traveling at the speed of light, it would take you 200,000 years to go across the Milky Way galaxy