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P10bG TIL about why so many Jeeps have rubber ducks on their dashboard
Zx9Y TIL JFK promised to abolish segregation with the stroke of a pen but after two years of an unfulfilled promise, African Americans in mass sent pens to the White House with letters reading “in case you needed that pen” which led him to sign an order to ban racial discrimination in wages
14OX TIL Rosa Parks sued Outkast for defamation for using her name in a song title. Outkast eventually settled by creating educational programs on Parks’ impact on America
neDX9 TIL how one way mirrors work, One-way mirrors are coated with a half-silvered layer, allowing the mirror to reflect half the light that strikes its surface.
96MX TIL, Lucifer as a proper name was not originally in the book of Isaiah, as the word Lucifer is of latin origin which did not exist when Isaiah was written, and stems from a mistranslation in the King James Version of the bible. The original hebrew text may even be about a Babylonian king.