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TIL: people in the Early-to-Modern Era hired poor people to literally consume sins of the dead

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epOk4 TIL when Al Smith won South Carolina with 91.39% in 1928, it was the worst result for a winner of South Carolina in a presidential election after 1896 and prior to 1944.
dDjL7 TIL about Precordial catch syndrome, a phenomenon in which you get sporadic stabbing pains in the chest, which is harmless
XEXr8 TIL Pablo Escobar, The Cocaine Kingpin, said that one of his first illegal enterprises was robbing tombstones from local graveyards, sanding down the names, and selling them to Panamanian smugglers.
8alkX TIL the first widespread book detailing contraception and sexual health was created and published illegally by some Canadian students in 1968. The ‘Birth Control Handbook’ rapidly gained popularity with its critical information and, within a year, millions were distributed across the US and Canada.
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