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4kgJX TIL In 2001, less than 0.1% of Hawaii’s population are native speakers of Hawaiian, making it a critically endangered language
eObE TIL: 59 years ago Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat. But 59 years and 9 months ago Claudette Colvin did the same thing, but the black community leaders didn’t publicize it because she was an unwed pregnant teen and didn’t want her to be the face of the cause.
gME58 TIL Iran's Queen Tadj ol-Molouk played an important part in the abolition of the veil in Iran during the reign of her husband. She was the first Iranian Queen to show herself in public when she attended a gradation ceremony in modern clothes with her two daughters, without veils
e0jWn TIL That the US has had over 2,000 unique Senators in its history. Only ten of them have been black.
gM9ey TIL 7/11 is named after their 'new' hours of 7am-11pm which were unprecedented in 1946, and they didn't experiment with 24-hour stores until 1963.