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TIL In 1889 Wyoming became the first state to let women vote, largely because they were short of women and were hoping to attract more

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4XX7o TIL the only bloodshed in the Anglo-Swedish war occured when a Swedish general killed 30 Swedish farmers for refusing to fight.
M7DlK TIL in the AFI’s ranking of the greatest films in American cinema, 3 of the top 4 films are the Godfather trilogy
Wk8v9 TIL Tommy Chong’s daughter Rae Dawn Chong discovered actor Chris Pratt working as a waiter at a Bubba Gump restaurant and cast him in a film.
v1LnB TIL less Americans died in combat during the American Revolutionary War (~6800) than died from disease (~17000)
Wkn89 TIL in 1816 a volcanic event led to what is known as the Year Without a Summer, originating an agricultural disaster. The lack of horse food inspired Karl Drais to research new ways of horseless transportation, leading to the invention of the velocipede, a step torwards mechanized personal transport