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TIL The Show "Extreme Makeover" was cancelled because a woman committed suicide after she felt guilty that producers forced her to make negative comments about her sister, a participant on a canned episode of the show.

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E14bX TIL about 'Auroville', founded in the 60's, is an experimental town located in India with no religion, money or government. It has a population of 2,500 to date.
78k9P TIL that the The Redbury New York Hotel in Manhattan operated as a women's-only hotel for 95 years. Their clientele included literary women, students, a YWCA manager, painters, advertisers, and accountants. The hotel was sold in 1997 and converted to a co-ed tourist hotel after being "underused."
wLv7M TIL the United States made it illegal to discriminate based on an individual's DNA sequence in 2008, an act that was passed almost unanimously by the house, senate, and executive branch.
nXV9 TIL Mahatma Gandhi had deep disdain for black people, once describing them as ‘only one degree removed from the animal,’ and 'whose sole ambition is to collect a certain number of cattle to buy a wife with, and then pass his life in indolence and nakedness".’
epZA4 TIL That Marie 'Madame' Tussaud owes part of her fame to the French Revolution. Originally slated for execution due to her connection with French nobility she was spared and subsequently began making wax casts of some of the revolution's more famous victims including Louis XVI and Marie Antoniette.