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TIL that Amy Poehler started a website to encourage girls to change the world by being themselves

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Y791B TIL the Summer Olympic Games featured fine arts competitions from 1912 until 1948. Artists could compete in the categories of architecture, painting, sculpture, literature and music.
97wB TIL that Eminem’s song ‘Rap God’ is in the Guinness Book of World Records for having the most words in a song (1,560 words in 6:04 minutes at an average of 4.28 words per second)
oRxn8 TIL the word for an eye doctor is spelled Ophthalmologist not Optimalogist
GA9WJ TIL that there was an unrecognized proposed state in colonial America called the State of Franklin in what is now eastern Tennessee founded with the intent to be the 14th state.
Yg8B TIL that the RGB color gamut used in electronics can not display all possible colors. Even if yellow is added, the device can still only display 87% of all colors that humans are able to perceive.