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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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rNWvM TIL that in the US, small business owners are incentivised to buy large, heavy cars rather than small, efficient ones.
wLx5P TIL that in this famous photo of a man being executed in the Vietnam War, both the executioner and the executed have the exact same Family name: Nguyễn. The reason for the brutal summary execution was because he had slit the throats of a military leader and his entire family, all also named Nguyễn.
b6pGN TIL babies between 2 weeks to 4 months of age often turn their head away from someone who's looking at them due to overstimulation.
9dvD TIL The only act of international terrorism in the history of New Zealand was from France
m1mWx TIL that the smell from old people is from the release of a chemical called “2-nonenal”.