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TIL in response to Million Dollar Baby, a disability rights group criticized Eastwood for having a vendetta against the disabled. Eastwood responded: I’ve gone around in movies blowing people away with a .44 magnum. But that doesn’t mean I think that’s a proper thing to do.

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GAPZj TIL The P2 Masonic Lodge was an illegal Italian lodge which had both past and future leaders of government (like Silvio Berlusconi). They were heavily involved with various Mafia groups, Planned a coup attempt, and appear to have had ties with the CIA's Operation Gladio.
n8eW TIL indoor prostitution was legal in Rhode Island from 2003 to 2009. During those years, reports of rape dropped by 31% and female gonorrhea cases dropped by 39% according to a study done by the National Bureau of Economic Research.
m1L5E TIL in the 1906 book 'John Dough and the Cherub' the titular Cherub was a child of indeterminate gender; the editors created a contest to guess the gender and second place argued girl as "if it had been a boy he would have eaten the ginger-bread man at once whether it agreed with him or not"
nWdpb TIL the American Terex Corporation supplied Iraq with weapons technology in the 1990s, likely at the direction of the CIA and British Intelligence.
x6Dg TIL Since 1945, all British tanks have come equipped with tea making facilities