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TIL Reading, PA is 69% Hispanic

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4XxAw TIL, about Joan Struthers Curran who, developed Chaff used to disguise where the D Day invasion was going to happen, but was never awarded a Degree in her time "because women were simply not granted degrees". Remarkable
oRvVY TIL that the US military controls 22.4% of all the land in O'ahu, Hawaii (85,718 acres out of 382,148 acres)
oRneL TIL a woman who went by the name 'Dove of Oneness' said that the US Congress passed a secret law that forgave mortgages and zeroed out credit cards in order to advance a financial scam.
Rya9 TIL that Einstein was stopped so much in public, he would reply, “Pardon me, sorry! Always I am mistaken for Professor Einstein.”
M7oG0 TIL In Barahona, Dominican Republic, there’s a “Magnetic Pole” phenomenom that a car put in neutral will be seen rolling UP a hill instead of down. This happens due to a gravity hill optical illusion.