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TIL every year Nickelodeon shuts down its TV channels and website for three hours on Worldwide Day of Play

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d8EE7 TIL there was a Equal Rights Amendment proposed. It seeks to end the legal distinctions between men and women in terms of divorce, property, employment, and other matters. It failed to ratify by 3 states.
wopZ7 TIL that bananas are berries, but strawberries aren’t.
aG69 TIL that trickle-down economics used to be known as the “horse and sparrow” theory based on the idea that if you feed the horse enough oats, some will pass through his bowels undigested for the sparrows to eat.
9vOr TIL Attila the Hun invaded Rome since the Emperor’s sister did not want to be married to a senator and asked for his help.
eXkD TIL that the second verse of the Friends theme song contains the lyric “Your mother warned you there’d be days like these,” despite the first line of the song being “So no one told you life was gonna be this way”.