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TIL “Amazing Grace” was written by a repentant slave trader who hoped “it will always be a subject of humiliating reflection to me.”

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KPd6 TIL that Marlboro cigarettes were originally designed for women. The iconic red stripe was intended to hide lipstick stains, thus making it appealing to women. When it failed to attract women, the company changed the filter color to a muted brown, slapped a cowboy on it and marketed it to men.
VMYkk TIL poop transplants from healthy donors into depressed ones may help treat clinical depression
QKa9 TIL that being taken hostage by Iraq does not get you out of paying child support for that time. Instead you will be arrested upon your release for failure to pay.
LkxPQ TIL in 2004 a woman in Texas was arrested and faced a year in jail for selling a vibrator to two undercover cops posing as a married couple at a private party
NXQDJ TIL many of Alfred Hitchcock's "Hitchcock blondes"- including Eva Marie Saint (North by Northwest), Kim Novak (Vertigo), Vera Miles (Psycho), and Tippi Hedren (The Birds)- are all alive today and in their 90s.