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TIL That Lobsters Communicate By Peeing At Each Others Faces

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6aOW TIL In the 80s, Weird Al turned down $5 million dollars to promote a beer brand, since a lot of his fans were “young and impressionable.”
MeWB7 TIL about the Telecommunications Act of 1996, which allowed 4 media conglomerates to buy out all successful indie hip-hop labels, eventually making hip-hop less about art & social change & more about crime, gang life, & sex as those sold more records, according to Prof Tricia Rose of Brown Uni.
JY8rj TIL: That during the design process of the World Trade Center, engineers had considered and done an analysis of a scenario where a jet airliner impacted a tower.
ayPZ TIL there was a Women’s Strike of 1975 in Iceland. 90% of women stopped working, cooking, and caring for children, and the entire country ground to a halt.
nWGXo TIL The Prohibition Party, who advocated for the banning of alcohol in the 1920s, is still active, making them the oldest active third party in American history.