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TIL The movie MASH (1970) was the first Major Motion Picture to use the word Fuck.

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kJdaE TIL 2100, 2200 and 2300 will NOT be a leap years, due to the fact that if a year is divisible by 100, but not 400, the year is skipped as a leap year, to counteract that a year is not actually 365.25 days long, but about 365.2422 instead, meaning the rule makes up for 3 days every 400 years.
pNRA TIL Video games can actually make gamers nicer people in real life, contrary to popular belief. Doing bad things inside a video game can make gamers feel guilty about their virtual actions, and they compensate by engaging in morally acceptable actions in real life
GYLo7 TIL The Racial Equality Proposal was a proposed Japanese amendment to the Treaty of Versailles demanding racial equality among citizens of the League of Nations. It received opposition from the US and Australia, and this rejection caused Japan to alienate and militarize leading up to WWII.
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