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TIL Many cities enacted anti-spitting laws, that are still technically enforceable today, to combat tuberculosis in the 1800-1900’s which was killing more people than any other disease at the time.

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a8OEL TIL that in 1997 Pope John Paul II had named St. Isidore of Seville as the patron saint of the Internet, as the seventh-century theologian and encyclopedist who wrote the sole encyclopedia for nearly a millenium around 650 AD.
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