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TIL in the 1920s, women in several US cities organized Anti-Flirt Clubs to combat catcalling.

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78a6Z TIL that Fahrenheit 451, a book about a distopian future where books are banned and burned, was banned and burned by the apartheid regime in South Africa with other tens of thousands.
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