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TIL only three women in US history (Maggie Hassan, Kelly Ayotte, Jeanne Shaheen) have been elected both as Governor and US Senator. All three are from New Hampshire.

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PbEE TIL the first man to swim the length of Great Britain grew a beard to stop jellyfish stinging his face
e06p5 TIL that the drink Crystal Pepsi was killed in the US due to a "kamikaze" marketing campaign by Coke. Coke created the drink Tab Clear, designed to be unpopular, and marketed it so that consumers would conflate the two drinks even though they were not similar. It worked and both were pulled in 1994.
awWM9 TIL of the "Happy ending problem", named that way because it led to the mathematician who proposed it, Esther Klein, and the one who solved it, Georges Szekeres, marrying each other.
Y7kVB TIL as part of Project Plowshare in the 1960's, the US government evaluated exploding 550 nuclear bombs across the Negev Desert to create an alternate canal to the Suez but was abandoned after a commission found that two dozen 2 megaton test detonations caused too much radiation
goDW TIL people wear pants because of horses. Mounted armies wearing pants were more effective than those wearing robes