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TIL The hand heart gesture was first noted in art in 1989, when Italian artist Maurizio Cattelan created an art image of the gesture as his first artwork named Family Syntax. Hand hearts became popular in 2010s

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aDPo TIL In the song “99 Problems” the “Bitch” refers to the late arrival of a police sniffer dog, not a woman
9YeaD TIL that Orville Wright (August 19, 1871 – January 30, 1948) , the aviation pioneer who, along with his brother Wilbur, invented, built and flew the first motor operated airplane lived long enough to see Chuck Yeager break the speed of sound (October 14, 1947). Imagine that!
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69PLX TIL that there are some cultures in parts of Europe that had legends that rainbows could magically change your gender.
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