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TIL of Frances Gabe. In the 1980s, she built and patented the world’s only self-cleaning home. The patent contained 68 inventions. She died in obscurity last year at 101 years old.

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wLE78 TIL that in 1970, the state commission in Mississippi voted to not air Sesame Street because of its “highly [racially] integrated cast of children” which “the commission members felt ... Mississippi was not yet ready for”.
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