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TIL about Donut Dollies, women who traveled through war zones to serve donuts to troops during WW2

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M7Yo0 TIL that Monrovia, the capital of Liberia in West Africa, is the second national capital to be named after a US president (James Monroe), apart from Washington DC. It also is the only national capital named after a leader of a different country.
jN1rE TIL that John Rockefeller, “provided major funding for Atlanta Baptist Female Seminary in Atlanta for African-American women, which became Spelman College.”, was an ardent abolitionist, and donated in total $550 million of his 1910 dollars to universities, sciences, arts, and churches.
nBgW TIL that in 1985, it was suggested that we build a “star” on Earth to power the world with endless green energy. 8 years ago, 35 countries came together to make this happen. In March 2014, construction had begun in France, and they hope to be done in a decade. Wow.
BVMe TIL that the antonym of cleave is cleave
wLpv6 TIL that “cut” in cut, copy, paste not only deletes, but it also copies at the same time