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TIL Sacha Baron Cohen carried a bulletproof clipboard when he filmed one segment of Who is America, out of fear that the participants would shoot him.

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6EdKW TIL that in 1972 the equal rights amendment was passed in the U.S. Senate but was never ratified by the 38 required states and has been waiting for the required number for 46 years.
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