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TIL India still bans gay sex.

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D1gpv TIL 40% of workers in New York masturbate while on the job
nen0P TIL the American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (ASPCA) helped bring the first case of child abuse to court in 1874. At the time, there were laws against abusing animals but no laws against abusing human children.
rEAx TIL residents of Pompeii almost all died instantly from extreme heat rather than from suffocation fire to ash/toxic gases
1aD1O TIL: there is another version of bowling called Candlepin
YyGP TIL that Samuel Caldwell was the first person in America to be arrested for selling marijuana. Arrested in 1937 for selling two joints, he was sentenced to a $1000 fine and four years of hard labor. This happened in one of the only places in America where pot is legal today, Denver Colorado.