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TIL the 1995 Chicago Heat Wave killed 739 people, more than the great fire of 1871.

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KYDP6 TIL Rosalynn Carter sat in on Jimmy Carter's presidential Cabinet meetings and took notes so she would always know what was going on, and also was the first First Lady to have her own office in the East Wing.
R5Br9 TIL that during James Cook’s first Pacific voyage, the crew brought a Polynesian navigator on board. He produced a chart of 130 islands he knew across a 2,000 mile radius, including 74 of their names and many of their distances, sizes, chiefs, and foods they produced.
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epWQE TIL that, during WW2, the USA wanted to turn France into a puppet state and abolish its'national sovereignty