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TIL Florida outlawed recreational dwarf tossing in 1989.

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AD4Aa TIL in 1986, the U.S. Supreme Court upheld the constitutionality of a Georgia sodomy law criminalizing oral and anal sex in private between consenting adults. It wasn't till 2003 the Supreme Court reversed the decision with Lawrence v. Texas, invalidating sodomy laws in the remaining 14 states.
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