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TIL birth control of any kind for unmarried people was illegal in most states in the US until 1972

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yQPnp TIL in 1209, crusaders were sent to siege Béziers (in France) as many citizens had become heretics. Before the attack, the army asked the Pope's ambassador on how to distinguish between heretics and Catholics, he replied: "Kill them all; let God sort them out." All 20,000 inhabitants were killed.
NaNP TIL that Buffalo Commons is a conceptual proposal to create a vast nature preserve by returning 139,000 square miles of the Great Plains to native prairie, and by reintroducing the American bison.
ALP4 TIL women care more about a man’s shoulder to hip ratio than they do about penis size.
oBLL TIL Magenta isn’t actually a color that is on the visual spectrum, and is invented by the brain to make a middle color between red and violet.
KYbo9 TIL that the title of the Led Zeppelin song D'yer Mak'er is the punchline of a joke that only makes sense with an English accent.