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TIL: Texting behind the rule

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epjWk TIL The Smoot-Hawley Act raised tariffs to the second highest in U.S. History in 1930, prompting retaliatory tariffs by other countries. causing exports and imports to decline by 2/3. Economists and economic historians have agreed that the Act worsened the Great Depression.
vPdpD TIL that because earthquakes kept destroying Spanish-built buildings like churches, houses, and settlements in Colonial era Philippines, a new architectural style was created solely to withstand the tremors——Earthquake Baroque.
9w7WM TIL the Madison Square Garden company uses facial recognition to keep out enemy lawyers
WkZKX TIL that ancient Israelites burned cannabis during worship
epZvE TIL Men at Work's "Down Under" uses the melody of the nursery rhyme "Kookaburra" and the band got sued for it