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TIL that the 90's teen rom-com "10 Things I Hate About You" is based on Shakespeare's "The Taming of the Shrew."

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a8WKJ TIL selling child abuse material wasn't ruled to be outside of first amendment protections until 1982.
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EglAx TIL that psychologists actually have a term for people who enjoy harming others, which is dubbed "everyday sadism".
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