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TIL that Ronald Reagan signed an executive order prohibiting assassinations

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b9AGa TIL the first modern office chair failed commercially outside the US, because it was too comfortable. The Victorian morality of the time valued rigid, unsupportive seats that allowed sitters to demonstrate refinement, willpower and morality through an upright posture.
BroNb TIL Nigerian-Americans are the most educated ethnic group in the United States. According to the Migrations Policy Institute, 29% of Nigerian-Americans have graduate degrees (compared to 11% of the overall American population)
xVdQo TIL laws restricting Chinese people to merchant visas made many Chinese restaurants in the U.S. These visas were only for fancy shops and the person had to run it for a year. Some groups used all their cash to open a nice restaurant and then switch who ran it each year so that they'd all get visas.
Ky19 TIL that Apollo lunar rover missions had a “walkback limit” on travel distance so that astronauts would still have time to walk back to the lander if the rover broke down
E14Wp TIL after the 1980 film Popeye flopped, the set was abandoned, so the locals of Mellieha, Malta reclaimed it as a Popeye theme park.