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TIL that Rep. Tom Moore Jr. once submitted legislation to the Texas legislature in favor of honoring notorious murderer Albert DeSalvo “for his work in ‘population control’” as an April Fool’s Day joke. Without paying any attention to it, it was unanimously passed.

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