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TIL that feminist American magazine Ms. has not carried advertisements since 1990

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440w TIL On a Price is Right taping in September 2008, the Showcase results were halted for 45 minutes - because a contestant had bid the EXACT price ($23,743). Drew Carey claimed he read out the result on-air as deadpan as possible because he was worried the show was crooked and he’d go to jail.
p8N6N TIL about Thomas Darcy, 1st Baron Darcy de Darcy, an English nobleman executed by King Henry VIII, whose wonderfully repetitive title is eclipsed only by the name of his first wife, Dousabella Tempest. (Incidentally, Henry VIII also had courtiers called Richard Rich and William Fitzwilliam.)
GAmpj TIL That the last time all living humans were on Earth simultaneously was October 31st, 2000. Since that day, there has always been astronauts in space.
x6pB7 TIL The cancelation of the US-Mexico Bracero Program indirectly lead to tasteless supermarket tomatoes
R5lE6 TIL The technical name for The # symbol is octothorpe.