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TIL That Verizon refused to help search for a 62 disabled patient because he had an unpaid bill on his phone

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gM9LL TIL "Mayhem" is felony -- defined as disabling or disfiguring someone, and in 1936 an American heiress was charged with mayhem for ordering doctors to sterilize her 20-year-old daughter as punishment for promiscuity and to steal her inheritance.
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