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W7xjo TIL that that in 1982, during the 80's Satanic Panic, Rep. Robert Dornan introduced a bill that would forbid backward messages on music albums. It failed to pass.
4XwgX TIL the US House of Representatives recognized that Alexander Graham Bell was not the original inventor of the telephone, in H. Res 269. They gave that recognition to Antonio Meucci. In 1887, the SCOTUS found the case viable and remanded a trial, but it was dismissed shortly after Meucci's death.
VMvVB TIL the CARES Act passed in March 2020 was introduced as HR 748 back in Jan 2019