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TIL that within a year of being elected in 1980, Ronald Reagan was responsible for repealing restrictions on advertising to children, opening the floodgates for shows like Transformers, GI Joe and Carebears to dominate kids television and toy isles.

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x9dB TIL there’s a real life Russian ghost ship floating around in the Atlantic ocean named the Lyubov Orlova
J1KQ8 TIL mick jagger once bought a mansion while tripping on acid
JEj4 TIL the Slinky was conceived of in 1943 by Richard James. While working at a shipbuilding company, he watched a torsion spring fall off a table and flip end over end. His wife came up with the name Slinky after looking through the dictionary for a word that described the motion of the spring.
RPrl TIL “Bicycle Day” (19th April) celebrates Swiss scientist Albert Hofmann’s discovery of LSD in 1943, and the harrowing ride home on his bicycle after deliberately ingesting a dose of the drug
WkxjA TIL the 20 most expensive license fees for New York hotdog carts are all for carts in Central Park. One man who has a cart at Fifth Avenue and East 62nd St. near the Central Park Zoo pays $289,500 every year for license.