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Interesting facts shown as lightbulbs on post-it notes. ... Tennessee and Missouri are the only states in the United States that share borders with eight other states. 6. Potatoes were the first ...
The United States government does not have a ministry of culture, but there are a number of government institutions with cultural responsibilities, including the President's Committee on the Arts and Humanities, the Federal Communications Commission, the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, the National Endowment for the Humanities, the ...
Image credits: all_thats_interesting #6. On May 18, 1980, Washington's Mount St. Helens erupted in a cataclysmic blast that left 57 people dead and an area the size of Chicago completely devastated.
June 12 – George H. W. Bush, American politician, 41st president of the United States from 1989 to 1993 & 43rd vice president of the United States from 1981 to 1989 (d. 2018) [15] June 20 – Chet Atkins, American guitarist, record producer (d. 2001) June 22 – John C. Whitcomb, American theologian (d. 2020) June 23
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The first documented use of the phrase "United States of America" is a letter from January 2, 1776. Stephen Moylan, a Continental Army aide to General George Washington, wrote to Joseph Reed, Washington's aide-de-camp, seeking to go "with full and ample powers from the United States of America to Spain" to seek assistance in the Revolutionary War effort.
Image credits: astarisaslave #8. TIL in South Korea, only blind people can get a masseur's license. This law was established in 1912, to help visually impaired people earn a living.
TIL that Woodrow Wilson is the only president of the United States to have earned a Ph.D. Image credits: Blackraven2007 Only the best of the best should attend the world's best universities.