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TIL Two-Thirds of Soviet Men Born in 1923 Didn’t Survive the War

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y9Ll Til: In Richman California, there is a program in place that pays gang members to be on good behavior. The program even sets up vacations with rival gang members together. The murder rate has gone down 77% since the program started.
1aRLP TIL that when the VCR was invented, film companies tried to make it illegal due to the possibility of recording copyrighted material, in a case which reached the Supreme Court. The head of the MPAA compared the effect of the VCR on television to that of the Boston Strangler on women.
0wkgM TIL Louis Armstrong worked for a Jewish family as a child, who eventually took him in and saw him as their own son after his father left the family.
m1vQo TIL that one side effect of oral birth control is that it shrinks the clitoris (which impacts sensitivity as well)
9Y1pQ TIL that earwigs have wings.