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TIL Wilbur and Orville were not the only Wright Brothers. There were five brothers and two sisters (including a twin boy and girl who died in infancy). Katharine promoted the Wright's work in Europe and marched in a women's suffrage parade with her elderly father and two of her surviving brothers.

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