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TIL that it is still legal in 19 states to paddle students as a form of punishment.

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Y9Wd TIL Adam Levine once tweeted at Fox News to never play Maroon 5 on their “evil, f*cking channel ever again;” the network went on to disobey his request
Ypgvv TIL of Master Sergeant Roddie Edwards, the ranking US officer at a Nazi POW camp. When Nazis told him to assemble his Jewish soldiers, he instead assembled all of his soldiers and told the German commandant that "we are all Jews here." He saved up to 200 Jewish soldiers.
KOyDQ TIL that in ancient Rome, giving fellatio was seen as a disgusting, shameful act, while receiving it wasn't. So sometimes petty crimes were solved by punishing the criminal through forcing him/her to perform fellatio on the victim of the crime, instead of taking the case to court.
OGL5Y TIL that the oldest writings mentioning yogurt are attributed to Pliny the Elder, who remarked that certain "barbarous nations" knew how "to thicken the milk into a substance with an agreeable acidity".
LQX6V TIL that 95 percent of southern Louisiana is corporate owned.