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TIL Women can be topless in public in most states!

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e0Xa6 TIL at the height of the Mongol Empire, Kublai Khan commissioned the creation of a unified script to be used by all languages within the empire. Called 'Phags-pa script, it was the official script for about 100 years, before falling out of use towards the end of the Yuan Dynasty in the 1350s.
VMK9p TIL the United States has a Space Force
awNRy TIL After fifteen year old Sharon Sheeley was convinced to start songwriting by Elvis Presley, she drove to the house of Ricky Nelson, pretended her car broke down, and suggested he record one of her songs. The song hit #1
dDnGd TIL that during WWII, Britain took down around 50,000 road signs so German invaders wouldn’t know where they were going.
b67L9 TIL that the song Smooth by Santana-Rob Thomas is both the last #1 hit of the 90s and the first of the 2000s