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TIL in 2018, Country Time Lemonade announced an initiative called 'Legal-Ade' which offered to cover fines of up to $300 for children in the U.S. who had been penalized for operating lemonade stands without a permit in 2017 or 2018.

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8ewe8 TIL that Peni Parker from Into the Spiderverse was created by Gerard Way (lead singer of My Chemical Romance and creator of The Umbrella Academy). He wrote the comic book she debuted in.
9Y4B7 TIL When Madonna broke up with artist Jean-Michel Basquiat, he took back all the paintings he gave her and painted them all black.
nexAG TIL The Devil's Cigar is a fungus that strangely only exists in small area of Texas and Japan separated by 11,000 km the two populations have been separated for at least nineteen million years. It looks like a cigar, hisses, releases clouds resembling smoke, then splits open into a flower shape.
wyrP TIL That out of the 238 years that the United States of America has been a nation, 216 of those years has been in conflict or war, which is about 90% of the time.
0xWj TIL that MLK said civil rights’ biggest enemy wasn’t racist folks like the KKK, but the “white moderate,” who is “more devoted to ‘order’ than to justice” and “constantly says: 'I agree with you in the goal you seek, but I cannot agree with your methods of direct action.’”