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TIL that the washing machine and electricity had a profound impact on the lives of women, giving them the possibility to access the marketplace.

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M74A7 TIL that despite the frequent assertion that lesbian relationships have the highest DV the source data paints a different picture.
4kag6 TIL that the highest point in Florida is Britton Hill, at 345 feet of elevation.
oD8K TIL that three bodies were found in a storage room on the USS West Virginia when she was re-floated after Pearl Harbor. A calendar kept by the men indicated that they had survived for over two weeks after the attack.
NwbE TIL wearing green on St Patricks Day is symbolic of Irish Catholics but Irish Protestants wear orange
JEbB TIL that a room known as ‘Room 641A’ in the AT&T telecommunications backbone houses beamsplitters capable of monitoring all the internet traffic in the US. It was largely thought to be a myth until PRISM revealed its existence in 2007.