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TIL: There are more payday lenders in the US than there are McDonalds

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6EBlZ TIL only 1 woman ever won the medal of honour & they tried to take it away from her. She was an early feminist & nurse who refused to wear women’s clothing & was disliked by the leading suffragists who said she was giving the “wrong image” for her clothing style.
16DaP TIL American spies had to be taught not to slouch and lean on things to blend in with Europeans
kJLam TIL in post-Independence Argentina, turpentine enemas were given to political dissenters as a form of punishment
mxYnP TIL of Witold Pilecki, a member of Polish resistance who volunteered to be imprisoned in the Auschwitz death camp to gather intelligence in 1940. He later escaped and was the author of Witold's Report, the first comprehensive Allied intelligence report on Auschwitz and the Holocaust.
grgE9 TIL At the time of first European contact in the early 16th century, Florida was inhabited by an estimated 350,000 people belonging to a number of tribes.