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TIL JFK's older brother Joseph was being groomed as a presidential candidate when he was killed in a top-secret flying mission in WWII

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69GKl TIL in 1970, 20 percent of all girls participating in high school sports across the country were in Iowa. By 1976, a few years after the passage of Title IX, that eye-popping 20 percent fell to 5.8 percent.
vPQdB TIL While divorce had been briefly legal during the Second Spanish Republic (1932), Franco began to overturn these laws by March 1938. Divorce in Spain thus remained illegal till 1981.
PVnJ TIL that there is a lightbulb that has been burning since 1901
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