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TIL six US states still have alienation of affection laws. A divorced spouse can sue a third party for breaking up a marriage.

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7rKBL TIL Twenty One Pilots is the only act in history to have two entire albums worth of songs certified Gold or Platinum. No other artist has ever achieved this.
R791l TIL the Judge Dredd series, running since 1977 without retcons, proceeds in real-time; as a year passes, one does in the comic. It is hailed as one of the best satires of American culture with a trend to predict things like mass surveillance, the rise of populism, and aspects of pandemic response.
b6om9 TIL that the earliest known reference to French toast dates back to first century CE in a Latin collection of recipes.
kjy1 TIL both Churchill and Charles de Gaulle considered WW1 and WW2 to be a single conflict, called the Second Thirty Years War
AMln TIL people with short stature have a lower chance of getting cancer due to simply having less cells, thus statistically lowering the odds of mutation.