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TIL 40% of workers in New York masturbate while on the job

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d8pgj TIL on 1829, Anne Royall, the first female journalist in the United States, was found guilty of being a "common scold" and sentenced to the ducking stool until the punishment was changed to a $10 fine
eXj6 TIL William Howard Taft, the 27th president of the United States, once said that perhaps the best way to handle former Presidents was to chloroform and ceremonially cremate them when they left office, in order to “fix their place in history and enable the public to pass on to new men”
j6Kdj TIL a Brazilian priest tied himself to 1,000 balloons and disappeared for months, until his body was found in the Atlantic
mAkx TIL swingers have the highest rate of STDs/STIs. you are far more likely to contract STDs/STIs from them than what you would from prostitutes.
QJYWa TIL that year long Daylight Saving Time was attempted in 1974 but was so unpopular that it got repealed early