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TIL Mississippi refused to air Sesame Street in 1970 due to its mixed-race cast.

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1a8O8 TIL Shel Silverstein, author and comic, wrote Johnny Cash’s hit song “A Boy Named Sue”
l767V TIL attempted suicide was illegal in Britain in the late 19th century. The sentence? Hanging.
rQed TIL Ulrich von Liechtenstein was a real man, and his autobiography depicts him as an undefeated jouster, competing for the hand of a noblewoman who demanded great deeds to even hold her hand.
gpRW TIL males receive, on average, 63% longer sentences than females for the exact same crime.
ADA5n TIL that when Queen Elizabeth got married in 1947, she had to save up post-war clothing ration coupons to pay for her wedding dress.