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TIL in Japan you can rent a fake family or family members

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vKn4 TIL Roger Williams was a minister who was in favor of religious freedom, separation of church and state, was against slavery, and wanted fair dealings with Native Americans. All in the 1600’s
Mdgb TIL Henry Ford published an anti-smoking book, circulated to youth in 1914, called The Case Against the Little White Slaver, which documented many dangers of cigarette smoking attested to by many researchers and luminaries.
OoPWL TIL General Robert E Lee had a pet hen named "Nellie" who laid an egg for him every day for breakfast. Robert E Lee loved the hen so much, he halted his retreat from Gettysburg in order to have his men look for her when he couldn't find her.
XEkjr TIL in Alaska, lakes outnumber humans by more than 4:1
PYrVw TIL: Nebraska is the only state in the union with a unicameral nonpartisan legislature.