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TIL Croissants are Austrian, not French

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gkGW TIL Queen Elizabeth served as a truck mechanic in WW2
9YxM TIL there is an archive of all major live television network broadcasts from 9/11 as it happened. “We can only tell you what we know – there’s been some sort of explosion at the World Trade Center.”
0d0B5 TIL the tallest candidate wins the majority of US presidential elections
b6ZkZ TIL King Charles & Prince William always travel in separate planes in case there is a crash, one needs to survive.
j6Eyp TIL that some of the earliest schools in Massachussets and Virginia in the 1640s were desegregated (Black students were taught alongside white students)