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WBQ9 TIL John Fogerty was once sued for a song he had written called “The Old Man Down the Road” sounding similar to a CCR song “Run Through the Jungle”…which he also wrote
dLbB TIL that during the civil rights movement, interracial adoptions tripled in number until the National Association of Black Social Workers condemned it, leading to interracial adoption of black children coming to a complete stop in the 1990’s.
RD7w TIL in the province of Ontario, ‘inserting an instrument, hand, or finger beyond the labia majora’ is a controlled act requiring one to be licensed as a physician
VBoOQ TIL That when Jeanette Rankin took her seat as Montana's Congresswoman in the United States House of Representatives in 1917, she became the first woman ever elected to sit in a national parliament. To date, she is also the only woman ever elected to represent Montana in Congress.
9vp6 TIL a man who was lost in the woods chopped down some power lines so that workers would have to come and rescue him.