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TIL strabane a small town in the north of ireland,produced the printer of the declaration of Independence John dunlap, the grandfather of 28th president Woodrow Wilson and a general who fought in the american civil war.

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xVWn1 TIL The opera house in Paris that the Phantom of the Opera is based on actually has an underground lake beneath it, just like in the book and musical.
e0V6 TIL That today we celebrate in Mexico “ The Patricios”. Irish soldiers who joined the Mexican Army against the US Intervention.
w9OJ TIL there are six US states in which you can sue a person for having an affair with your spouse that ends your marriage.
0dMGA TIL of Dora Richter, the first transgender woman to have received GRS in 1922/1931 in Germany. She had survived the nazi regime despite the destruction of the sexual research institute and lived to 1966
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