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TIL that people used to live in tree trunks

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Brk4W TIL Beethoven’s 9th Symphony is sung in Japan at the end of every year, and the first time it was sung in the country was in a POW camp in 1918 by German prisoners
78wXx TIL that Connecticut banned the use of any contraception for married couples until 1965
awdmN TIL: Patch Adams only agreed to the 1999 film of his namesake because they promised to help build his hospital. None of the profits from the film was ever given to his foundation, and the film was heavily criticised by Patch Adams himself, saying: "I hate that movie."
Br8jL TIL in 1972 the US Congress established the Office of Technology Assessment (OTA), to provide policy-makers with a better means of understanding complex science, and the many technology concerns of the day. It was dismantled in 1995 for being biased and unnecessary.
0O9v TIL that the woman who started the Mother’s Day tradition in the US was so opposed to its commercialization that she spent her whole inheritance and her remaining years of life protesting what the holiday had become