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TIL Dodge City was once so associated with vice that it was nicknamed “the Sodom of the West.”

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j6yAR TIL that in the Victorian period arsenic colours (which could and did kill) were used to dye consumer goods, from food coloring to baby carriages.
Dmev TIL a child that was Bart’s age when The Simpson’s first premiered would now be the same age as Homer.
KOl4Q TIL Dr. Jane Goodall set herself apart from traditional conventions by naming the animals in her studies of primates instead of assigning each a number. This also led her to develop a close bond with the chimpanzees and to become, to this day, the only human ever accepted into chimpanzee society.
mQlP TIL Ill-gotten gains from criminal activity must be reported as income for tax purposes and taxpayer may also take deductions for costs relating to criminal activity. SCOTUS ruled that the purpose of the tax code was to tax net income, not punish unlawful behavior.
vo0D TIL Matthew McConaughey’s father died while having sex with his mother and she insisted that he be carried out of the house naked after he was pronounced dead because as she puts it “I was just so proud to show off my big old Jim McConaughey — and his gift.”