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TIL Apple prohibits “bad guys” from using iPhones in movies

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4Nlg TIL a pregnant employee at a Christian school was fired for having premarital sex. The school subsequently offered a job to the man who had gotten her pregnant.
VBgMk TIL that the state of Massachusetts tried to nullify the Vietnam War by passing a law that its citizens could not be conscripted in an undeclared war. The Supreme Court declined to hear their case
woGm8 TIL that, despite being widely taught in schools, the idea that different sections of the tongue are exclusively responsible for different basic tastes is a common misconception
8eGJK TIL on August 8th, 2023 a historical society installed a plaque commemorating Dave Matthew’s Band tour bus dumping 800 pounds of human sewage on a tour boat beneath a Chicago bridge.
Egmo7 TIL that the annual Financial Services and General Government Appropriations Act in the US prhibits the redesign of the $1 bill because of how little it gets counterfeited. (pg 24, section 118)