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TIL That Sesame Street was banned in Mississippi when it first aired (1970) due to the “highly integrated cast of children”…

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D80j TIL in 1982 as a protest against actions by the United States federal government, Key West in Florida seceded from and then declared war on the United States, surrendered one minute later and then applied for one billion dollars in foreign aid.
6kX TIL Walgreens is one of very few businesses who advertize their sexual wellness items on their website with prices too. Win for modern planning for people who are curious but too shy to go linger in the aisle.
E1oj7 TIL Good Judgement Project (GJP) that demonstrated certain "superforecasters" were better at predicting geopolitical and economic events than even experts in that field (even if they had classified info) based on HOW they thought about problems & ability to reduce basic biases experts tend to have.
N7jPe Today I learned the word supercalifragilisticexpialidocious is a real word that was first used in 1931 by Helen Herman in the Syracuse University Daily Orange.
xKOo TIL that Stephen Hawking claimed that the egg came before the chicken.