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.
They evolved into emojis in Japan in the late â90s; then the Unicode standard helped them spread to the rest of the world in 2010, and the rest as they sayâ¦ I mean, theyâve even got grammatical rules of their own now. No more are they mere punctuation; theyâve become a language unto themselves.