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TIL That men and women have buttons on different sides of their shirts because men had to reach for weapons and women had handmaids do their shirts up for them.

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4Xp96 TIL that Star Wars: Return of the Jedi was filmed under the title Blue Harvest: Horror Beyond Imagination so it avoided all the publicity and that's also where the Family Guy special got its name from.
VBl5m TIL the Harvard Corporation was founded in 1650 to govern Harvard University, and is the oldest corporation in the Western Hemisphere
rR19o TIL the present-day Washington State was originally called "Columbia", but Congress forced the name change to "Washington" in honor of George Washington and to avoid confusion with the nation's capital, the District of Columbia
JY5x4 TIL that US homes today are 1,000 square feet larger than in 1973 and living space per person has nearly doubled
OBnL TIL that in the summer of 1995, the Nickelodeon show Rugrats surpassed reruns of even Seinfeld and Frasier to become the most watched show among adult males aged 18-31