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TIL In Florida, executions are carried out by a private citizen who is paid $150 per execution.

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Ooyd7 TIL that the ACLU was originally founded as the Civil Liberties Bureau after World War I broke out in 1917 to oppose the creation of a draft and protect conscientious objectors to World War I.
wAnE TIL via Ancestry, that my family was a part of a eugenics study, that claimed that my grandmother was the “mother of criminals” with over 100 prostitutes and 76 convicted criminals in the family line, the family was urged not to reproduce.
YpDW TIL at least 5 people have been murdered for unfriending someone on Facebook
YpW5G TIL that cerebral palsy is a brain disorder that affects the areas of the brain that control movement. While CP can occur with intellectual disabilities, CP itself does not affect the reasoning areas of the brain. Most people with the disorder are as intelligent as anyone else.
P1bKw TIL the Billboard R&B chart was once called "Race Records", which was 'a chart of bestselling African-American music'