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TIL Kids get a $2 discount if they read a book aloud to their barber while getting their haircut in Michigan

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v1Pl7 TIL about the 1936 soviet movie 'Circus.' A single white mother with a black child flees racism in America & follows the circus to Russia. At its climax, the cast sings to her baby in every language of the USSR.
jNeNM TIL in 2014 an Australian physics professor submitted a paper titled "Get Me Off Your Fucking Mailing List" to a scientific journal that sent him unsolicited emails. The paper was accepted for publication, but the journal kept emailing him.
5rJ8 TIL That if the wealth of the world were spread evenly, every one would make just under $12,000 annually
E1bdP TIL more than 20,000 Americans attended a Nazi rally at Madison Square Garden in 1939
jQON TIL legendary English comedian Benny Hill earned a 7 figure salary yet never owned a home, didn’t buy a car, rarely purchased new clothes and always bought cheap foods in supermarkets.