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TIL that contraceptives were prohibited in some states for married people until 1965 and for unmarried people until 1972.

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WGDL TIL that the Texas Supreme Court reinstated a family law judge after he was caught on camera beating his disabled daughter.
enKD TIL Kevin Carter, who two months after he won a Pulitzer for a photo of a vulture stalking a starving child in the Sudan, killed himself and in his suicide note wrote, “I am haunted by the vivid memories…of starving or wounded children…”
LjJ0 TIL that it wasn’t until the 1930s that production techniques improved to the point where toilet paper could be advertised as “splinter free”.
nWBy7 TIL that an Irish American by the name of Malcolm Loughead was a renowned engineer who invented the hydraulic brakes that all cars use today. You might already know his company because he got so sick of people mispronouncing his last name that he changed it’s spelling to the more phonetic “Lockheed”
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