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TIL that in Victorian England, the novel "Trilby" became so popular that "Trilby-mania" took over society, with themed products like dolls, clothing, sausages, and foot-shaped ice creams.

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xwl0 TIL in 1982 a U of TX student received a C for a paper he wrote in support of the ratification of a 1789 amendment to the constitution regarding Congress’s pay because it was deemed “unrealistic”. In response he started a campaign to ratify it, and 10 years later it became the 27th amendment.
R7L06 TIL that Fidel Castro established concentration camps for gay people because he considered homosexuality as inherently counterrevolutionary and as bourgeois decadence
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