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TIL that after Japan bombed Pearl Harbor, 1 member of Congress out of 470 against war. The dissenting vote? The first woman elected to Congress. “As a woman I can’t go to war, and I refuse to send anyone else.” She was mobbed and had to hide in a phone booth until Congressional police came.

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n6N7 TIL in 1931 the Soviets attempted to battle illiteracy using erotic picture alphabet books.
J9Qv TIL that Smaug, the reclusive red-gold dragon from The Hobbit, has an estimated worth of $54.1bn. It is #2 Richest Fictional Characters.
MnPb TIL Texas is by far the No. 1 producer of wind energy in the United States; if it were its own country, Texas would be the fourth-largest largest wind-producing country in the world by the end of 2017.
LMZp TIL that theoretically, it would take 4 light years of worth of lead to stop a neutrino.
dODr TIL MLK told 60 Minutes that “A riot is the language of the unheard”