Not until April 1967â42 years after the Butler Law was passed, and 12 years after Inherit the Wind, a play based on the Scopes Monkey Trial, became a Broadway hitâdid the Tennessee Legislature repeal the anti-evolution law.
Emoji have become an unofficial universal language in everyday communication. It almost feels like some people were born knowing the proper usage of each one. For instance, there's no doubt that the tears of joy emoji is used as a way to tell someone you're laughing so hard that you're crying.
The programmers behind each operating system are free to design their emoji as they like. However, the emoji paletteâthe collection of 722 standardized emoji that are available for you to useâhas been encoded by the Unicode Consortium, which was founded in 1990 and consists of a loose network of contributing members.