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TIL The US Chamber of Commerce isn’t a Federal Agency, but a massive lobby group.

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M7KZK TIL the first time aircraft carriers were used was in WWI. First deployed Mid-January 1915 the HMS Ark Royal served in the Gallipoli campaign and throughout WWI. She carried 8 seaplanes that would conduct reconnaissance missions.
5VRbk TIL early automatic weapons were invented with humanitarian intentions: their creator believed faster-firing guns would save lives by shrinking armies.
b9JvN TIL If you’ve had straight hair for all of your life, your hair can grow back in curls after you’ve completed Chemotherapy.
rRPKw TIL about the Republic of Vermont, an independent republic that lasted from 1777 to 1791, which, after breaking away from Quebec, fought with the Americans against the British in the Revolutionary War, and was admitted to the union as a counterweight to the slave state of Kentucky.
xV80D TIL that gays in Hong Kong started using the word "comrade" (同志) in the '80s as a way to spite the Chinese Communist Party for its mistreatment of sexual minorities in the mainland. Today, it is one of the primary terms LGBT people in the Chinese-speaking world use to refer to one another.