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TIL that Hooters ran an airline that sadly went bust (pun intended)

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ZpWBB TIL in 1873, the US Supreme Court denied Myra Bradwell from practicing law. Some of the reasons were "would open the flood gates and many more women" and "Brutal cases would not be appropriate for a woman".
ANawg TIL The longest recreational trail in North America, and the world, is not the Appalachian or Pacific Coast Trail, it is the The Trans Canada Trail. It is 15,000 miles long and it stretches from the Atlantic, Pacific, and Arctic oceans.
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