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TIL Mary Baker Eddy started The Christian Science Monitor not for her religious reasons, but so that the world would have a source of news free from "Yellow Journalism"

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J4w4 TIL Haiti is the first and only nation established as the result of a successful slave revolt.
R7nAw TIL Dr. Dolittle, the star of a series of lighthearted children's books about a guy who could talk to animals, was dreamt up by Hugh Lofting while in the gruesome carnage of the trenches of World War I, as a distraction, in letters to his children.
GYBDN TIL that sitting inside of a snowed-in car with the engine running can be deadly if the tailpipe is clogged with snow.
NXwgN TIL of Lost City a robust ancient Ancestral Puebloan city in Nevada that was rediscovered in late 1800s that was knowingly flooded and lost due to the Hoover Dam construction and creation of the Lake Mead reservoir
kJGBB TIL that in the 1948 California Supreme Court case Perez v. Sharp, the County of Los Angeles included quotations from Mein Kampf in arguing that the state’s ban on interracial marriage should be upheld.