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TIL that in 2012 an Oklahoma judge sentenced a teen to attend church as part of his prohibition agreement.

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WkMW9 TIL Tipping became popular in the US during the decades following the Civil War, when some US employers began encouraging their customers to tip, thereby avoiding paying African-American employees a decent wage
9ZGB TIL there is a 9th century Germanic ‘bible’ which presents Jesus as a warrior-king.
d8M9Z TIL that the chestburster scene in Alien was inspired by the pains the writer suffered as a result of Crohn's Disease
RGOw TIL Saddam Hussein kept a torture chamber in the basement of the Iraqi mission on the Upper East Side of NYC across the street from Michael Bloomberg’s house. People who died there had their bodies mailed back to Iraq in diplomatic shipments.
VMv18 TIL The vibrator was invented before the vacuum cleaner (1883)