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TIL that only 9 US Presidents to date were not millionaires
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TIL The Japanese are descendants of ancient Koreans
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TIL the Lincoln Memorial was almost a giant pyramid. During the planning process for the memorial various designs were considered and rejected. One design would have had the memorial built inside of a giant Egyptian style pyramid.
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TIL that WW1 was started in large part because of a novella written 6 years prior by the Russian writer, Leonid Andreyev. His short story inspired a group of Bosnian revolutionaries to assassinate Archduke Franz Ferdinand.
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TIL Aloha Wanderwell was the first woman to drive around the world, befriended Chinese bandits, captured the first footage of the Bororo tribe, and disguised herself as a man to pray in Mecca.
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TIL U.S. Internet Access is Slow, Costly, and Unfair because a few powerful media conglomerates put profit ahead of the public interest