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TIL: In the United States, children were considered the parents property until the 1960s. Even in 1956, attempts to pass U.S. Federal legislation to ban baby-selling failed.

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QbEE TIL the 1981 Italian horror film ‘Nightmare’ was so controversial in the UK, the distributor received an 18 month prison sentence for refusing to edit 1 second of violence. The film had already been cut by over 3 minutes.