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TIL Robert Kennedy posed for JFK’s Presidential Portrait

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ZlbG TIL that prostitution was widely legal in the United States up until the early 1900’s, when the Woman’s Christian Temperance Union lobbied against it. This was the same union that was a driving force behind Prohibition in the 1920’s.
b600 TIL there was a pre-WWII movement called Technocracy, which held that scientists and engineers should take over the government and economy from politicians and economists. The leader of the movement was known as the Great Engineer.
dDRR8 TIL the song Dumb Ways to Die has been attributed with up to a 30% reduction in near miss train accidents during the following 12 months after its release
AOen TIL that DARPA developed an aircraft that reached speeds between Mach 17 and Mach 22
LQ5O9 TIL that, Noh theater (Traditional Form of Japanese theater) uses four pillars to help actors wearing wooden masks orient themselves on stage, overcoming limited vision and maintaining positioning throughout the performance. Here is the link to one of my favorite Noh Performance.