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TIL of Mary Sweeney who was arrested more than 100 times in Wisconsin in the 1890s for breaking windows while using cocaine.

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BgdYb TIL that in addition to names like “Hope”, “Felicity”, and “Prudence”, Puritans also named their children things like “Jesus-Christ-came-into-the-world- to-save”, “Damned”, and “Fly-fornication”.
bkLZ TIL Huey Lewis achieved a perfect 800 in math on his SATs
n6Zb TIL Canada sterilized indigenous school girls till the mid 1990s
b6pvE TIL that ‘natural products from bacteria (and their derivatives) account for half of all commercially available pharmaceuticals’
oB8KR TIL the first dentist who used a common organic solvent we now call "ether" as an anesthetic, William Morton, was castigated by the 18th-century medical community when he tried to patent it/profit from it.