These Are All The Major Pop Culture & Historical Moments of the Last Decade

2013: Same-Sex Marriage Legalized 

The Supreme Court overturned Proposition 8 with a 5-4 ruling that legalized same-sex marriage in California. That put an end to the Defense of Marriage Act.  The court ruled Section 3 of DOMA unconstitutional "as a deprivation of the equal liberty ... protected by the Fifth Amendment." The decision was widely quoted by both sides in same-sex marriage lawsuits.

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The More You Know

  • Male seahorses bear their young.
  • One area of Canada has a weaker gravitational pull than the rest of Earth.
  • Bill Gates plans to donate 95% of his $81.1 billion dollar wealth to charity. That's about $77 billion dollars!
  • A U.S. park ranger named Roy C. Sullivan held the record for being struck by lightning the most times, having been struck — and surviving — seven times between 1942 and 1977.
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