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Jul 17, 2020

TIL During the Great Depression, members of the Civilian Conservation Corps planted over 3 billion trees in the US in under ten years.

environment great depression topics

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Jun 13, 2020

TIL about Loving Day, June 12th; the day that Mildred and Richard Loving finally won their case against Virginia in the US Supreme Court in 1967, legalizing interracial marriage in the US.

civil rights movement race in america topics

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Jun 12, 2020

TIL Jeannette Rankin was a Montana politician who made history in 1916 as the first woman ever elected to the United States Congress. She was also the only member of Congress to cast a vote against participation in both world wars. She was unafraid to take controversial positions on several issues.

topics u.s. congress women's history women’s history world war ii

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Jun 09, 2020

TIL the word Geek was originally an early 20th-century term for a carnival worker who was so unskilled that the only thing they could do at a carnival to attract a crowd was to bite off the heads of live animals such as chickens, snakes and rats and swallow them

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Jun 08, 2020

TIL that Jesse Owens was not only not acknowledged by Hitler, but also from his president, Franklin D. Roosevelt. Only white Olympians were invited to the White House in 1936. Most likely, FDR did not want to risk losing the support of Southern Democrats by appearing overly soft on the race issue.

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Jun 06, 2020

TIL that Founding Father John Adams would turn down invitations to July 4 celebrations, believing that July 2 (the date the Continental Congress voted for American independence) was the correct date to celebrate Independence Day.

american revolution holidays topics

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Jun 03, 2020

TIL the Great Sphinx of Giza is so old, that when the first archeologic expedition came to restore it, it had to actually excavate it first, as it was covered up to its ears in sand and dust. Oh and no - that expedition didn’t take place in the 19th century. It took place 3400 years ago.

ancient egypt pyramids topics

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May 27, 2020

TIL Under Saddam Hussein the Iraqi government excavated Babylonian ruins and attempted to reconstruct certain features. After the 2003 invasion of Iraq, US forces built a military base on the ruins of Babylon causing "major damage" to the site according to UNESCO

ancient middle east topics

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May 25, 2020

TIL Memorial Day was started by freed slaves to honor soldiers who died during the civil war

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May 08, 2020

TIL Mary Queen of Scots suspected of murdering her husband fled to England for help. Cousin Queen Elizabeth I, threatened by Mary’s claim to her throne, imprisoned her 19 yrs then beheaded her. Elizabeth had no children so Mary’s son ironically became first king over England, Scotland & Ireland

1587 british history february 08 great britain royalty topics

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Mar 10, 2020

TIL about the Fermi Paradox, a concept from the 1950s named after Italian-American physicist Enrico Fermi, that highlights the apparent disparity between estimates of intelligent life on other planets and a conspicuous lack of such evidence thus far in our exploration.

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Feb 11, 2020

TIL It took 100 days to put out the flames of the 9/11 attacks. Everytime a large chunk of debris was moved a rush of oxygen would severely intensify the flames.

21st century topics

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Jan 12, 2020

TIL In the late 1960s, U.S. Congress proposed a measure known as the Uniform Monday Holiday Act where all federal holidays fell on a Monday, as a way of creating more three-day weekends for the nation’s workers, thus reducing employee absenteeism.

holidays topics u.s. presidents

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Jan 07, 2020

Today I learned Martin Van Buren (the 8th president on the United States) was the first American citizen to be president

topics u.s. presidents

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Jan 07, 2020

TIL one reason why Greenland is considered the largest island and Australia is a continent not an island (even it fits the definition of an island to be entirely surrounded by water) is because Greenland is a part of the North American plate and Australia has its own separate tectonic plate.

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Jan 06, 2020

TIL that Nero didn't play a fiddle while Rome burned in 64 A.D., bowed string instruments wouldn't appear in Europe for another 800 years. However several sources place Nero on the roof of his palace during the fire, dressed in stage garb and singing from the Greek epic “The Sack of Ilium.”

ancient history topics

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Oct 31, 2019

TIL that haunted house attractions didn't really go mainstream in North America until the Great Depression, when parents began organizing haunted houses or trails to keep young men from causing trouble on All Hallow's Eve.

crime halloween stories topics

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Sep 08, 2019

TIL that the Code of Hammurabi, while notorious for its eye for an eye punishments and the removal of body parts of the guilty party, was also one of the earliest pieces of written law to have it a requirement for an innocent person to be assumed innocent until proven guilty

ancient history topics

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Aug 10, 2019

TIL- The 8th U.S President Martin Van Buren never once mentioned his wife in his 800 page autobiography.

first ladies topics

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Jul 22, 2019

TIL that a man by the name of Roger Williams was the galvanizer for Jeffersonian Democracy (ie separation of church and state) and was a staunch proponent for fair dealings with Native Americans. He was a devout man who saw organized religions as bastardizations of faith and God.

colonial america reformation topics

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