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TIL Weinstein has been thanked more than God at the Oscars

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mx6Kp TIL: Many birth control pills contain Folic Acid to prevent neural tube defects if the contraceptive happened to fail.
4kA0X TIL: Congress doesn't actually pass a law against child pornography until 1996.
BrMrr TIL An acre was historically the amount of land tillable by one man behind one ox in one day. Poor farming technologies and the need for farmland to be close to the river means that acres were traditionally long and narrow.
QNdJM TIL: Carl Sagan originally wanted to include the Beatles' Here Comes the Sun on the record on the spacecraft Voyager but the record company EMI declined
wojAY TIL In 1998, Hyundai founder Chung Ju-yung sent 1001 cattle as a symbol of positive progress from South Korea to North Korea as humanitarian aid during a famine to promote peace and strengthen economic cooperation between the two countries. Sadly, many of them didn't survive the first winter season.