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TIL that part of George McGovern's initial 1972 platform in his run for president was a payment of $1000 a year to every American citizen

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loWJ7 TIL about 'Franks Sign'. A diagonal crease in an ear lobe, which has been hypothesised to be a predictor of cardiovascular and coronary artery disease in older populations.
VpE4 TIL that “TIME"magazine is an acronym that stands for The International Magazine of Events.
eyAk TIL In 1976, Sesame Street aired an episode that scared kids so much, they vowed to NEVER air it again…and haven’t
OoXQe TIL that for the English-language version of the Japanese Studio Ghibli movie, Ponyo, the animators had to painstakingly re-draw the lips and mouth movements to properly match the language change - "You don't think of this as being a dubbed Japanese film."
XVl6 TIL there is a Jules Verne novel called “Paris in the Twentieth Century”, which was written in 1863, set in 1960 and first published in 1994.