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TIL Nickelodeon has a time capsule that holds important items from 1992 voted on by kids.

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1NDW TIL Germans celebrate Father’s day by having “oddly dressed men pulling wagons filled with beer into parks and drinking until they pass out.”
wOYY TIL in 1957 an Indian Statesman gave an 8 hour long speech in U.N. security council to buy time for other leaders to consolidate Indian power in kashmir.The speech ended with him collapsing on the floor and is still the longest speech in United nations history.
gJbD TIL that the recent growth in incest themed pornography production and consumption is driven by demand from millennial generation viewers
evBL TIL The advertising executive that first used sex appeal in ads was a female, and a member of the suffragette movement.
Oo7j7 TIL that Hitler himself disliked the blackletter typeface that many Nazi organizations still use today. The typographical dispute between the Fraktur typeface and the more legible typeface Antiqua came to an end in 1941 Nazi Germany with an edict from Martin Bormann, which forbade blackletter.