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TIL The poverty line in America was designed assuming every family had a housewife who was a skillful cook.

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p8GxN TIL that George Wallace was reelected as Governor of Alabama in the 80's by winning over many black voters. He would then appoint over 160 African Americans into positions of power in the state
WkV5X TIL that upon return from the moon, the Apollo 11 astronauts had to go through US Customs. They declared rocks, dust, and other lunar samples.
x6pdw TIL in World War I, German and French soldiers would sometimes display "live and let live" behavior. Sometimes soldiers would refuse to target the other side and at other times they would fire weapons ceremoniously and with no intent to harm the enemy
0wo81 [TIL] Australia is the smallest continent on Earth. Oceania on the other hand is a region made up of thousands of islands in the South Pacific and is not a continent.
NgbP TIL the Quartermaster on Pirate ships could veto the captain’s decisions whenever the ship was not chasing a prize or engaged in battle