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TIL - until 1993, in North Carolina, a husband could legally rape his wife under the spousal exemption from rape laws - 33 states still regard spousal rape as a lesser crime.

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nyD9 TIL that Disney almost made a Toy Story 3 without Pixar’s involvement. The story involved Buzz Lightyear toys being recalled for manufacturing defects and being shipped off to Taiwan. The film was almost in production stages before being scrapped by Pixar.
woOpE TIL Pinball was illegal in Oakland until 2014.
0DVM TIL the 2020 Olympics will take place in Tokyo, as predicted in the manga Akira in 1982
ykbw TIL that in the 1924 Tour de France, riders used cocaine and chloroform as performance enhancing drugs.
awZOZ TIL that composer Johann Schobert (NOT Schubert) died from eating poisonous mushrooms, after two people told him not to eat them. A doctor friend insisted that they were edible. Schobert, the doctor, his wife, and all but one of his children ate the resulting mushroom soup and died.