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TIL Littering can result in imprisonment of up to six years in Tennessee

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6E0gW TIL that the first large scale human trial for the birth control pill was conducted on Puerto Rican women in the 1950s. These women were unknowingly participating in the clinical trial and deaths of participants were not investigated.
X0RmD TIL: Writer Jonah Lehrer fabricated Bob Dylan quotes for one of his books, which led to his resignation from the New Yorker magazine
v1Jxj TIL about the Kentucky Meat Shower, an incident in which chunks of meat mysteriously fell from the sky in 1876.
wLPbJ TIL beloved WWII correspondent Ernie Pyle was responsible for military troops receiving higher pay when in combat. Pyle felt that ground troops were at equal risk as airmen and that 'flight pay' should extend to 'fight pay'. It became the Ernie Pyle bill.
Y7eZZ TIL a boy was executed in Iceland’s Witch Trials for using Fretrúnir (fart magic) on a girl.