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Valentine's Day was first noted as being a romantic holiday in 1382 in Geoffrey Chaucer's poem "Parliament of Fowls."

The Progressive Generation were responsible for major technological innovations like the telephone, light bulb, and radio.

Rosa Parks' courageous protest on the bus in 1955 was not pre-planned but driven by mental exhaustion from systemic oppression.

The United States declared Christmas a federal holiday on June 26, 1870, marking a shift toward widespread festive celebrations.

The Missionary Generation revolutionized science, with scientists like Albert Einstein with his theory of relativity and E=MC².

The term "Lost Generation" was coined by Gertrude Stein and popularized by Ernest Hemingway in his book "The Sun Also Rises."

The Greatest Generation popularized using doggie bags during WWII to prevent waste amidst food shortages caused by the war.

Did you know that the Silent Generation popularised some of the slang phrases we still use today, such as "gobsmacked?'

Despite the fall of the Aztec Empire, about 1.5 million people in Mexico still speak the Aztec language, Nahuatl.

During the baby boomer generation, roughly 76 million babies were born in the US, raising the country’s population by about 50%.

Did you know that the Stonewall Riots were so impactful that they inspired the first gay pride parade in 1970?

A one-mile (1.6 kilometers) long pride flag was entered into the Guinness Book of World Records as the largest flag ever made.