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TIL that in 2002, after incumbent Minnesota Democratic Senator Paul Wellstone died in a plane crash, the Democratic-Farmer-Labor Party chose former VP Walter Mondale to replace Wellstone a week before the election. This marked Mondale's return to politics after 22 years, losing with 47% of the vote

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6E16Z TIL about Charity Hospital the second oldest hospital in the United States that was abandoned after Hurricane Katrina. New Orleans still spends $3 million dollars a year securing the building, after a $1.2 billion dollar hospital was opened to replace it.
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