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TIL that it was technically legal to kill Mormons in Missouri until 1976

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Bg0rb Today I learned the in many states in America, it is entirely legal for medical students to practice pelvic and prostrate exams-without your consent -while you were under anesthesia for an unrelated surgery.
yVGOJ TIL in 1836, when Nikolai Gogol presented his play The Government Inspector, focusing on a corrupt mayor tries to cover up his own corruption and bribe a visitor he mistakes as an inspector, the tsar personally overruled the censors and had it staged as a warning to officials.
ODAe TIL a ship can be cut into two, and extended by welding in a new center section.
YAnr TIL I learned of Neil Tillotson, the inventor of latex gloves and balloons. He was also the first voter in every American presidential primary and presidential election from 1960-2000.
eAP4 TIL Tom Morello; guitar player for bands like Audioslave and Rage Against the Machine, was the child of the very first elected president of Kenya