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TIL That until the year 1991 it was illegal for bars in Virginia to serve or employ homosexuals. It was being actively enforced until a 1991 US District Court case struck it down.

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OGy8X TIL The Green Bay Packers (NFL) is the only non-profit, community-owned major league professional sports team based in the United States
JYBD8 TIL of Twilight Sleep, a popular childbirth practice that was supposedly pain-free because it erased the memory of the birth by putting the women in a semi-narcotic state. In reality, women thrashed, banged their heads, clawed, screamed, were bound, and laid in their own vomit and waste.
gMywL TIL that an island in the middle of Loch Lomond in Scotland is home to roughly 60 wallabies
8Mr4 TIL the Russian gov’t drilled a ~15km (49,000 ft) borehole into the Earth’s surface but couldn’t continue due to temperatures in excess of 180 °C (356 °F)
QJxyk TIL that Patrick Stewart wanted to play Othello from the age of 14. In 1997 he got his chance, by portraying a white Othello in an otherwise all-black cast