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TIL a 2022 survey of 3,000 adults & children found that just 27% of children (ages 6-16) said they regularly play outside their homes, whereas, 71% of the baby boomer generation said they did when they were children (80% for those ages 55-64).

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VB0Pm TIL Peter Norman, the Australian silver medalist photographed in the iconic 1968 Olympics photo alongside two black athletes with a raised fist wore a badge in support of their protest, and turned down a lucrative job offer during the 2000 Sydney Olympics because he refused to renounce his actions.
5VMNn TIL Queen's 'Bohemian Rhapsody' Was 'Mongolian Rhapsody' according to early lyric sheet
P1LvL TIL: The official song of POTUS, Hail to the Chief, was adapted from an original Gaelic melody
gMQJA TIL CDs actually made good money in the old days (this is interesting/shocking as a millennial)
pmab TIL a belief that the eye “recorded” the last image seen before death was widespread in the late 19th and early 20th centuries and the process of retrieving the image is called ‘Optography’.