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TIL Smoking in the presence of a child is considered physical abuse in Latvia.

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Wkd1o TIL in 2012 a white power rally in North Carolina was overwhelmed by counter-protestors dressed as clowns throwing white flour and holding "wife power" signs
Z8gg4 TIL of Sally Miller Gearhart, a feminist scholar who proposed reducing the male population because they are 'corrosive to female-led social change."
oRG9L TIL Motown initially tried to play up 11 year old Little Stevie Wonder’s similarity to Ray Charles. The first album he recorded for the label was titled “Tribute to Uncle Ray”. It was a commercial failure. Wonder’s success at Motown was scattered until he gained control of his own sound at 20.
QJD16 TIL that a man by the name of Roger Williams was the galvanizer for Jeffersonian Democracy (ie separation of church and state) and was a staunch proponent for fair dealings with Native Americans. He was a devout man who saw organized religions as bastardizations of faith and God.
awZL0 TIL The stars in the Paramount logo honor the 22 actors and actresses put under contract in 1916 by film producer and founder Adolph Zukor