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TIL Interracial marriage was made fully legal in all U.S. States only 51 years ago when the U.S. Supreme Court decision deemed anti-miscegenation laws unconstitutional in 1967.

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XE7br TIL a software developer once tested asking for donations vs. limiting trial version features. He randomly gave people either a version that asks for a donation, or one that is feature-limited. The feature-limited version made five times as much money, and the experiment cost him $17,000 in sales.
KO7bG TIL - Queen Elizabeth II ordered the guest rooms of her palace to be stripped of valuables before the President of Romania visited in 1978 because she feared he and his wife would steal from her.
nekRd TIL that in the Caucasus nation of Georgia has a large amount of people who support the restoration of their monarchy.
0d1k5 TIL the nuclear bomb explosion in Terminator 2 was so accurate that the US nuclear team at Sandia Labs sent James Cameron a letter saying it was the "most correct visual representation of the effects of a nuclear weapon ever put on film".
P1KkO TIL that a monkey named Jocko Flocko was the co-driver for stock car racer Tim Flock for 8 races in 1953. Two weeks after becoming the only NASCAR-winning monkey, Jocko was euthanized after getting out of his seatbelt and hit in the head with a pebble during what became his final race