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TIL women in Texas must view an ultrasound, listen to the heartbeat, and be described the organs before being allowed to get an abortion.

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0bN1 TIL infamous film director Uwe Boll once challenged critics to a boxing match. 4 critics showed up. He proceeded to punch the living shit out of every single one of them.
QBPa TIL that in the 2nd U.S. Presidential election, both major parties, the Federalists and Democratic-Republicans, nominated George Washington as their candidate.
0L71 TIL Costa Rica is the only country in the world whose constitution forbids having a national army. The previous army was disbanded in 1949 after victory in the civil war.
0wDJv TIL About Dorothy Molter, aka "The Root Beer Lady," made root beer and sold it to thousands of passing canoeists in the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness (BWCAW), near Ely, Minnesota.
E1gKw TIL of Lucía Zárate, the lightest recorded adult, who at the age of 17 weighed a mere 2.1 kilos (4.7 lbs). A sideshow performer, she died of hypothermia after her circus train was caught in a snowstorm in the Sierra Nevada mountains.