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TIL Futurama is named after an exhibit at the 1939 World’s Fair that showed what they thought the world would be like in 1959

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m1JAx TIL the International Court of Justice could not conclusively decide whether a country may use nuclear weapons in self-defense if its survival is at stake.
1anMO TIL that in 1945, at the United Nations Conference on International Organisation, the USSR requested that all 15 Soviet Republics be made members of the UN to better represent the people of the east. The US countered this by requesting that all 50 US states be made members of the UN.
DEKP TIL Spaceballs budget($22,700,000) was over twice Star Wars ($11,000,000)
bGQQ TIL that Korean people use the phrase “my mouth is bored” to express the feeling where you want to eat simply because you’re bored and feeling like munching on something.
gMaVy TIL that the scientist who created one of the earliest racial classification systems believed that none of the races were inherently inferior to the others, nor that colored peoples were uncivilized. His classification system became very influential but his opposition to racism was mostly ignored.