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TIL Johnny Cash worked as a radio operator in the US Air Force and was the first person to learn of Stalin's death when he received and decoded the Morse code transmission being sent out globally from Moscow.

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P115e TIL in 1775 South Carolina had a Northern part and Southern part with Georgia right in the middle.
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