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TIL During the 1960s American banks mass mailed 100 million unsolicited credit cards to customers including unemployable people, drug addicts and compulsive debtors. This practice was outlawed in 1970 due to the financial chaos it caused.

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5YOEP TIL that Helen Keller thought it was okay to let infants die if they had severe mental impairments or physical deformities.
GYNE5 TIL In 1908 William "Bigfoot" Anakin, a local champion, was taken along by a publican to court to help demonstrate that darts was not gambling, it was a game of skill. He threw three darts in the center, no other court official could do the same. The judge ruled that darts was a game of skill.
KOpjR TIL Giuseppe Piazzi, following his discovery of the Dwarf Planet Ceres, had difficulty tracking its position given the lack of data. Carl Friedrich Gauss, upon hearing this, worked for three months on the problem and successfully predicted its position within half a degree a year after discovery.
0kRM TIL there exists patents for a nuclear powered drill that heats up the tip of the drill to high enough temperatures to melt rocks and create a glass coated tunnel.
LoQ0 TIL that men are more likely than women to be the victims of violent crime comitted by strangers