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TIL that Connecticut banned the use of any contraception for married couples until 1965

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N8Pe TIL that in 1998, workers restoring Benjamin Franklin’s home uncovered the remains of 10 people; researchers suspect that a house-guest of Franklin smuggled in dead bodies to use for anatomical research and buried them in the basement
R7Lw TIL Karl Marx’s son-in-law wrote a book entitled “The Right To Be Lazy”
jNREv TIL Michigan isn't even in the top 10 of Worst Lead Poisoned States while Pennsylvania and New York are #2 and #1.
XPND TIL the callers on Grand Theft Auto IV’s talk shows are actually fans of the series that entered a phone-in competition. Entrants were asked to talk about everything they think is wrong with “America, Liberals or Your Health”
7oNO TIL that initially morphine was used as a cure against opium addiction and later heroin was used as a cure against morphine addiction and even later methadone was used as a cure against heroin addiction!