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TIL the 1910s and 1920s are the only two decades when the median center of U.S. population moved east, instead of west.

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p11O TIL Students at Bob Jones University aren’t allowed to go to movie theaters and at home can’t watch movies rated higher than G by themselves
BXPk TIL that Henry Ford was the first Industrial Giant to give his workers both Saturday and Sunday off, in hope that it would encourage more leisure use of automobiles, and thus popularizing the idea of the “weekend”.
R6El TIL Stephen Colbert founded a shell corporation in Delaware named Anonymous Shell Corporation so it could be given large donations to anonymously funnel into his Super PAC, he asked FMR. FEC Chairman Trevor Potter how it was different from money laundering. Potter’s response was “It’s hard to say.”
QaAE TIL A new British owl sanctuary was opened in 2009 just to house all the pet owls abandoned by Harry Potter fans
QNPM6 TIL that Austrian actress Eva von Berne was presumed to be dead for 70+ years because a PR consultant at MGM accidentally reported her death in 1930. 96-year-old von Berne said in 2006: "It was fortunate that the world thought that I died. So I did not have to deal with autograph hunters."