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TIL 13 out of the top 15 SAT scoring states are run by Republicans

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MgPm TIL President Ronald Reagan signed MLK Jr. day into law in 1983. At first, some states resisted observing the holiday as such, giving it alternative names or combining it with other holidays. It was officially observed in all 50 states for the first time in 2000.
GYl7j TIL that the USA does not have an official language at the federal level. English is only the official language of 32 states.
KOgV6 TIL Around 10% of marriages worldwide are between first or second cousins. In Pakistan, around 50-60% of marriages are with first cousins
QJ8na TIL in the late 80s NASA studied house plants as a means of providing cleaner and purer air for their space stations. They found Peace Lilies and Chrysanthemums to be the best all rounders at air filtering.
loYxN TIL because Western music were so hard to come by in Soviet Russia, a counter culture known as the “stilyagi” began developing bootleg vinyl records from X-rays—also known as “bones”—that they would then sell on the black market. Getting caught with one resulted in 3-5 years in a hard labor camp.