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TIL that overall TV viewership declined by 50% since 2002

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jNDKN TIL that blue jays are in the Corvid family and are closely related to crows and ravens
xy9w TIL that in “Godzilla vs. King Ghidorah”, the big white building in Shinjuku that takes a beating from Mecha-King Ghidorah and Godzilla during the final battle is the main center for tax in Japan, during the cinema showing the audience cheered when it was destroyed.
p8wA8 TIL German longjumper "Luz" Long gave Jesse Owens advice allowing him to win gold at 1936 Berlin Olympics. Long won silver. During the war, Long asked Jesse to tell his son "what times were like when we were not at war... how things can be between men on this earth", before being killed in 1943.
Xo4r TIL a bomb was set off in Ireland during a parade in 1987. 10 years later those responsible apologized bc of the peace campaign by the father of one of the victims.
Oowg TIL Charles Barkley was fined $10,000 for spitting on a little girl.