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TIL that the city of Americana in Brazil was founded by former Confederates who fled the US after the Civil War

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ADQQl TIL that Marilyn Monroe viewed Abraham Lincoln as a father figure once saying “Most people can admire their fathers, but I never had one. I need someone to admire. My father is Abraham Lincoln…I mean I think of Lincoln as my father. He was wise and kind and good. He is my ideal, Lincoln. I love him”
Rwb4 TIL Winston Churchill taught his parrot to say ‘Fuck Hitler’ and 'Fuck the Nazis’
n9OY TIL the welfare state was originally a right-wing invention by arch-conservative Otto von Bismarck. Bismarck hated socialism, but he wasn’t an ideologue. He figured out that if you don’t provide a minimum safety net to workers, they will be persuaded by the socialists.
yOap TIL that the youngest person to ever become pregnant and give birth was 5 years old.
9wZlM TIL Inge Lehmann, who discovered that the centre of the Earth is solid, is also one of the longest lived scientists in history, living to 104 years of age and wrote her last scientific article at 99