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TIL about Loving Day, June 12th; the day that Mildred and Richard Loving finally won their case against Virginia in the US Supreme Court in 1967, legalizing interracial marriage in the US.

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wEyJ TIL M. Night Shyamalan once watched Nickelodeon kid show ‘Are You Afraid Of The Dark?’, and particularly enjoyed an episode called “The Tale of the Dream Girl”, which is about a kid who can communicate with the dead. The episode would influence him to write the screenplay for The Sixth Sense.
wDJ8 TIL British PM Gordon Brown hand-wrote a letter of condolence to a mother whose son had died in Afghanistan where he misspelled the deceased’s surname. The Sun published a vitriolic article criticising his lack of care but misspelled the same name and was forced to publish an apology of its own
xXyg TIL that in the 1700s, “macaroni” was a slang term for a fashionable man who dressed in an outlandish and androgynous fashion. Hence the mocking verse, “…stuck a feather in his hat and called it macaroni.”
b9XxZ TIL about marriage graduation, where couples still in love decide to live separately in order to fulfill their individual life long dreams. The concept originated in Japan, and it provides freedom from marriage without the stigma of divorce.
0bKM TIL that the Sonic game Shadow The Hedgehog contains profanity, allows Shadow to use assault rifles, and the options to attempt to assassinate the president and aid terrorists in detonating bombs in a major city.