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TIL that in 1879, between a third and two-thirds of all pregnancies in the US were intentionally terminated.

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N7oO8 TIL that Scheherazade, the storyteller from One Thousand and One Nights tells her stories (Aladdin, Sinbad, ...) to the monarch so that he would stop marrying and killing a new virgin every day after his first wife betrayed him. He had already killed 1001 women when they met.
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