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TIL that Axel Rose is the lead singer of AC/DC
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TIL that Columbus’s ship La Niña was only 50 feet long, and none of his three ships—Niña, Pinta, or Santa Maria—was greater than 60 feet long (18.29 m).
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TIL A woman was elected to Congress before women’s suffrage. American women were given the right to vote in 1920, but Jeanette Rankin became the first woman in the U.S. federal office in 1916.
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TIL Bosnia and Herzegovina presidency has a three-member body instead of one
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TIL in 1935, a con man was arrested for selling his victims a "currency copier", purportedly capable of reproducing $100 bills. The day before his trial, he fashioned sheets into a rope and slipped out the window, pretending to be a window washer as he shimmied down the building.
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TIL the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community collected 11,170 pints of blood (enough to help save 30,000 lives) in honour of the 9/11 victims.