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TIL For 37 years the Supreme Court did not consider movies to be protected under the 1st amendment because “they may be used for evil”.

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KJnQ TIL An electron differs from a perfect sphere by less than 0.000000000000000000000000001 of a centimeter – so that “if the electron were magnified to the size of the solar system, it would still appear spherical within the width of a human hair.”
vP1K4 TIL about the “Retail Apocalypse” - the closing of numerous large-chain retail stores worldwide, starting around 2010 and continuing onward.
R57J4 TIL The Saturday morning cartoon Dungeons and Dragons finished with a cliffhanger and was cancelled. Some fans interviewed the writer Michael Reeves, got the finale script, used series animations, and one original actor to recreate what should have been the final episode.
a5jJ TIL That Beyonce once shut down a hospital floor to give birth, forcing patients and family members out such as a dad coming to see his 2 prematurely born kids
RZgl TIL A Russian navy officer, Vasili Arkhipov, opposed his commanding officer’s decision to launch a nuclear torpedo in response to US practice depth charges during the Cuban Missile Crisis, thus averting a nuclear war and saving the world