TIL of the first transcontinental trip across the United States in an automobile. In 1903 two men and a dog used 800 gallons of gas and spent/lost $8000 over 63 days to travel from San Francisco to New York in a car with no roof or windshield to win a $50 bet that they never collected. atlasobscura.com/articles…
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πŸ‘€︎ u/Stylolite
πŸ“…︎ May 19 2019
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TIL Horatio Nelson Jackson and Sewall K. Crocker became the first people to drive a car across the United States in 1903. Along the way, they obtained a dog to join them. Outfitted with goggles to keep the dust out of his eyes, Bud Jackson became the first dog to travel across the US in a car. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hor…
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πŸ‘€︎ u/eltroopay
πŸ“…︎ Nov 12 2019
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The United States and Romania will announce today plans to build a β€œfirst-of-a-kind” small modular reactor (SMR) plant in Romania in partnership with U.S. NuScale Power, bringing the latest civil nuclear technology to a critical part of Europe whitehouse.gov/briefing-r…
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Bo, the First Dog of the United States i.reddituploads.com/98679…
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πŸ“…︎ Dec 30 2016
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Strelka was one of the first animals in space to return safely. She became a sensation in the Soviet Union and had puppies with cosmo-dog Pushok. Nikita Khrushchev gave a puppy, Pushinka, to JFK as a gift. She also had puppies and Strelka's bloodline is still alive in the United States. dawdlez.com/2015/07/13/sp…
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πŸ“…︎ Dec 30 2015
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Owning a dog tied to lowering your risk of dying early by 24%, says science. The review of the health benefits of man’s best friend analyzed research involving nearly 4 million people in the United States, Canada, Scandinavia, New Zealand, Australia and the United Kingdom edition.cnn.com/2019/10/0…
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πŸ‘€︎ u/judine
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TIL the Carolina Dog is a dog breed first discovered living wild in the southeastern region of the United States, and after extensive DNA testing it is believed they are the descendants of the first animals to accompany humans across the Bering land bridge thousands of years ago. reddit.com/r/todayilearne…
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πŸ‘€︎ u/unremovable
πŸ“…︎ Feb 17 2019
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[WP] As a joke, we elect a dog for President of the United States. For its first speech, the dog starts talking.
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Bo and Sunny, soon to be Former First Dogs of the United States
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πŸ“…︎ Jan 18 2017
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Twenty-first Amendment and the end of the prohibition of alcohol in the United States.

Do you know any books (sources) that deal with the aftermath of end of the alcohol prohibition in the US, how the State and society handled the reintroduction of that industry, and the transition as a whole?

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"The Dog Cafe" in Los Angeles touts itself as the first of its kind in the United States offering guests the opportunity to enjoy cafe-style beverages while interacting with dogs seeking forever homes. upi.com/Odd_News/2016/04/…
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πŸ‘€︎ u/drewiepoodle
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1800, the first President of the United States to live in the White House
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πŸ‘€︎ u/sajiasanka
πŸ“…︎ Nov 01 2021
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Breaking News: The First ________ President of the United States has just been elected!
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πŸ‘€︎ u/TheEliteKoala1
πŸ“…︎ Oct 09 2021
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The first dog of The United States! Patton Trump! i.reddituploads.com/ea9ad…
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πŸ‘€︎ u/Anthonymxs918
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1789, The first Chief Justice of the United States
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πŸ‘€︎ u/sajiasanka
πŸ“…︎ Oct 19 2021
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Two foreign immigrants have just arrived in the United States by boat and one says to the other, "I hear that the people of this country actually eat dogs."

"Odd," her companion replies, "but if we shall live in America, we might as well do as the Americans do." Nodding emphatically, one of the immigrants points to a hot dog vendor and they both walk toward the cart. "Two dogs, please," she says. The vendor is only too pleased to oblige, wraps both hot dogs in foil and hands them over the counter. Excited, the companions hurry to a bench and begin to unwrap their "dogs." One of them opens the foil and begins to blush. Staring at it for a moment, she turns to her friend and whispers cautiously, "What part did you get?"

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πŸ‘€︎ u/Peakey0823
πŸ“…︎ May 09 2018
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5 billion dog sized Fire Ants actually made of fire vs The United States. What happens?

That's 100 million fire ants per state. They spawn on a Tuesday at 11 am. The weather is beautiful outside.

They are each the size of the average dog. So let's say the size of an adult golden retriever.

These fire ants can "flame on" at will and the fire does not physically harm them at all.

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πŸ‘€︎ u/brin2088
πŸ“…︎ Aug 11 2019
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[Pearl, my service dog and I went on a short hike to watch the sun set! First time posting on hiking!] [Look Rock] [Foothills Parkway] [Townsend, Tennessee] [United States]
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πŸ‘€︎ u/_jennius_
πŸ“…︎ Aug 18 2018
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First Dog of the United States of America en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fir…
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πŸ‘€︎ u/burningtoad
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TIL: There are approximately 600 million dogs in the world. It is estimated that nearly 400M of those dogs are strays. The United States has the highest pet dog population in the world. Approximately 75.8 million thedrakecenter.com/servic…
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πŸ‘€︎ u/enginegeek
πŸ“…︎ May 09 2019
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My great grandfather, his friend and their dog Prince finishing their 14,000 mile walk around the border of the United States for a prize of $5,000 in 1916
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πŸ‘€︎ u/AndygirlXS
πŸ“…︎ Dec 06 2019
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I am a queer person of color standing with the first Muslim congresswoman, and I just voted for Bernie Sanders to be the next President of the United States. Early voting has started in Minnesota!
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πŸ‘€︎ u/politicalpug007
πŸ“…︎ Jan 17 2020
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It would only cost about $50 billion to buy up or cancel all of the student debt in the United States progressiveseverywhere.su…
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πŸ‘€︎ u/UneventfulAnimal
πŸ“…︎ Nov 22 2021
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A visual representation of how far the United States is willing to go to defend capitalist interests. Each dog tag is an innocent young person sent to their death in Vietnam to defend the interests of capital, under the guise of freedom. End war, end capitalism. Happy veterans day.
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πŸ‘€︎ u/Philosophleur
πŸ“…︎ Nov 12 2018
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TIL that the first woman to run for President of the United States was Victoria Woodhull in 1872, 50 years before women could vote. She had Frederick Douglass as her running mate, and spent election day in jail due to being arrested for obscenity. ehistory.osu.edu/biograph…
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πŸ“…︎ Nov 23 2018
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It's 5 AM on my 24th birthday. I'm in my last year of law school, in love with an amazing man, and about to submit my first brief to the United States Supreme Court

I couldn't be happier. In the last year I've wrangled my mental health and I'm in a better place than I've been in years.

In the moment these accomplishments seem insignificant to work and time put in, but they're huge.

What is something going well in your life now?

Edit: I've gone through the comments and tried to respond to everyone. If I missed you I'm sorry! I'll be hanging around and continuing to cheer you guys on, give pep talks, advice and celebrating the great things going on in your lives!

UPDATE:

Many people asked about the brief I was working on. I will not identify the exact brief for privacy purposes but here is the Supreme Court link to the case, Allen v. Cooper. All of the Amicus briefs filed are at the bottom. I wrote one of them ;)

https://www.supremecourt.gov/search.aspx?filename=/docket/docketfiles/html/public/18-877.html

I am happy to answer all questions you have about it, except those that would identify the one I wrote.

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πŸ‘€︎ u/rmsfr
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TIL Metallica’s β€˜Master of Puppets’ was deemed "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant" enough for preservation in the National Recording Registry by the United States Library of Congress in 2016, the first metal recording to do so. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mas…
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πŸ‘€︎ u/Wdwdash
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Dogs can detect agricultural diseases early. Study shows dogs can sniff out laurel wilt-infected avocado trees well in advance. Laurel wilt disease has resulted in the death of more than 300 million laurel trees in the United States alone. eurekalert.org/pub_releas…
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πŸ‘€︎ u/Wagamaga
πŸ“…︎ Jun 08 2018
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What do you think of the current president of the United States?
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White supremacists declare war on democracy and walk away unscathed | The United States has a terrible habit of letting white supremacy get away with repeated attempts to murder American democracy theguardian.com/commentis…
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πŸ‘€︎ u/IntnsRed
πŸ“…︎ Nov 11 2021
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Should we elect a dog as President of the United States in November, why or why not?
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