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TIL in 1971, the Texas legislature unanimously passed a resolution honoring Albert DeSalvo, self-confessed “Boston Strangler”, for work in "population control"—after the vote, Rep. Tom Moore Jr. admitted it was an April Fool's joke—to prove they pass legislation with no research.

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