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TIL In 1930, despite a petition by 1,028 economists, president Hoover passed the Smoot–Hawley Tariff Act in an effort to alleviete the Great Depression. It prompted retaliatory tariffs by other countries. U.S. imports and exports fell by 67%, worsening the effects of the Great Depression

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gWp9 TIL: There was a movement of people in the late 1800’s called the “anarchists”; that effectively changed American labor policy by fighting injustice with extreme violence, rather than sitting in front of Wall Street.
K8jJ TIL the 2011 movie Mars Needs Moms is the biggest box office flop in history when not adjusted for inflation. It lost $130 million.
e0KJ6 TIL of Tom Attridge, a Grumman test pilot who managed to shoot himself down while in an F11F Tiger after entering a steep dive and catching up to rounds fired prior to the dive (which slowed down due to air resistance). With his engine and windshield damage, he was forced to crashland but survived.
0dM8v TIL about Ocean Conservation Namibia which is a group of men who search daily for seals who have become entangled with fishing nets and other harmful things and rescue them. They would do the same for other animals but seals are the only ones they are able to get close enough to.
Br1ar TIL inventor and architect Buckminster Fuller tried to document his life as completely as possible. Every 15 minutes from 1915 to his death in 1983 he recorded his life in his diary named ‘Dymaxion Chronofile’. Ultimately, it contains 14,000 papers and is a staggering 82 metres high.