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TIL Irish monks invented spacing between written words.
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Olga
TIL When Britain began to impose prohibition of heroin, in 1968, there were fewer then 500 heroin addicts. By 2001, the Home Office says there were as many as 500,000.
kOdXB
TIL Fred Phelps was excommunicated from Westboro Baptist Church before his death for having a change of heart about his religious beliefs and acknowledging the "Equality House," a local LGBT support organization, as "good people."
yaAM
TIL the top 1% of bands and solo artists earn 77% of all revenue from recorded music.
e0e94
TIL that at the start of the AIDS epidemic, CDC epidemiologists has a plan to combat the disease, but were told by the Regan administration "No, we're not going to fund it, and we want you to look pretty and do as little as you can."
nWbG
TIL that cheerleading is, by an enormous margin, the most dangerous organized sport in high school and college