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TIL it is illegal to possess a whip in downtown Reno without a permit

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e0Gwg TIL of the 1980 book "Michelle Remembers", which sold millions of copies and spurred the Satanic panic of that era. Oprah even had the two authors on her show and presented their accounts of satanic abuse as pure fact. The book was later discredited.
9YOOp TIL that the future King Henry V of England took an arrow in the face at the Battle of Shrewsbury (1403), fighting beside his father when he was only 16 years old. Despite the terrible wound, he kept fighting and later recovered. Turns out he was a badass long before invading France.
jPLa TIL that if caught having sex on an airplane in the 60’s and 70’s crew members occasionally greeted couples returning from the bathroom with a glass of champagne and a cigarette and officially welcomed them to the mile-high club
E1R8P TIL that the last time the Pittsburgh Steelers (of the NFL) fired their head coach was in 1968.
DPpV TIL Argentina has a radio station that is broadcast from a mental institution in Buenos Aires and interviews the patients. It has 12 million listeners and is actually called called “Crazy Radio”