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TIL That The US Government Literally Poisoned Alcohol During Prohibition

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l7WYG TIL Heated seats may cause infertility in men
9YD8M TIL that pregnancy starts from the last 'normal' period of the mother, so when you would normally discover a pregnancy from a missed period, there is only ~8 months left, not 9.
mxv1o TIL that Cormac McCarthy's novel Blood Meridian contains so much violence that it is considered "unfilmable" - a notion that McCarthy himself denies.
glLW TIL that it took until 1976 for the state of South Australia to become the first jurisdiction in the English Speaking World to make rape in marriage a criminal offence.
Bke TIL in 1959, a radio DJ named Peter Tripp kept himself awake for over 200 hours for charity, and never recovered psychologically.