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TIL that the height limit on Washington, DC buildings has been in place since 1910 and has nothing to do with the height of the Washington Monument or the Capital Dome. Instead, height limits are based on the width of each street.

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RLl TIL that Mel Blanc, voice actor of most of the Looney Tunes characters (especially Bugs Bunny), has his tombstone inscription as “That’s all Folks!
xVmo5 TIL in 1958 Cuba became the second country in the world to have color TV broadcasts. However, the Cuban Revolution made them end in 1959 after broadcasting stations were seized, and Cuban television then remained solely black and white until 1975.
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