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TIL that Carrie B. Shelton was the Woman Who Became Governor 11 Years Before Women's Suffrage

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NgB1 TIL that baking (that’s right, oven-baking) your MacBook’s motherboard is a valid option for restoring system failure. Verified this last night. Works like new!
bDjE TIL in 1803 a mysterious beautiful woman in a circular UFO-looking boat called a Utsuro-bune washed ashore on a remote Japanese fishing village. She spoke no Japanese and carried a box depicting strange symbols that nobody was allowed to touch.
ANWYd TIL "The Star-Spangled Banner" actually has four verses, although the second through fourth verses are not commonly performed.
4J1w TIL that Red Rain fell in Kerala India and when examined it contained red cells from an unknown origin.
J1QKV TIL the famous photo of Marines raising the American flag over Mount Suribachi during the Battle of Iwo Jima taken on Feb. 23, 1945, was actually the second flag raised there that day. AP photographer Joe Rosenthal missed the first raising because he was "still climbing up the mountain at the time"