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nerP7 TIL Wyoming was the first state to grant women suffrage, because Republicans were in favor of former slaves’ rights to vote, and Democrats hoped that if they allowed women the right to vote, they would stay faithful to the party that granted them that right.
e0nbE TIL it is believed that one of the reasons for the paranoia and bizarre behavior that led to the Salem Witch Trials was caused because of a fungus, Ergot, which grows on rye plants and is a close cousin of LSD. Mistaking it for large rye grain, Salem villagers ground it into their bread and ate it.
AD0Ra TIL Charlie Chaplin was into young girls. He fired an under aged girl from his movie after refusing to abort his child and narrowly escaped a sex scandal by marrying her in secret.