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TIL Reading, PA is 69% Hispanic
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TIL Alaska has for almost 40 years paid all its residents more than $1,000 per year as a dividend from the state’s tax revenues from oil. A decision has been made to use the wealth from oil to activate all residents rather than to expand the state’s public budget.
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TIL that in 1940, after the German Luftwaffe bombed Buckingham Palace during the Blitz, Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother refused to leave the King and evacuate to Canada with her children, saying - "I am almost glad we have been bombed. Now I feel I can look the East End in the face."
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TIL Cmdr. Billie J. Farrell is the first woman in 224 years to command the U.S.S. Constitution. The oldest active Navy ship in the U.S.
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TIL that the first wind turbine was introduced in 1887 by a Scot called James Blyth. He offered to power the street lights of the village of Marykirk, near Aberdeen, using his 33ft turbine – the villagers refused and called it “the work of the devil.”
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TIL there has been one member of the US Congress that was born into royalty. Prince Jonah Kuhio was Hawaiian nobility before the territory was annexed and he served in the House of Reps from 1903-1922. Happy Prince Kuhio Day / 152nd Bday!