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TIL that Opera Contralto Ernestine Schumann-Heink toured the U.S. to raise money for American forces in World War I while her son was in the German Navy.
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TIL that in the United States, 54% of adults have a literacy below a 6th-grade level, 20% are below 5th-grade level, and 21% are illiterate.
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TIL Archduchess Charlotte of Austria spent years as a social worker under the name Charlotte de Bar for charities in NYC and Munich
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TIL Mount Saint Elias is both the second tallest mountain in the United States and the second tallest mountain in Canada.
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TIL Carlsberg Laboratory, owned by the Danish brewer, was where the pH scale was invented, and where the first stable commercial beer yeast was isolated (Saccharomyces pastorianus/Saccharomyces carlsbergensis), along with many other scientific innovations