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TIL that the US had something called “ugly laws”

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kOM0m TIL the Rubik's Cube was so popular in the 80's that the best selling book in 1981 was about solving techniques, selling over 6 million copies
gML79 TIL they used the castle in Central Park as exterior shots for the "Count von Count" vampire on Sesame Street
VMmGZ TIL in 2015 due to soaring demand for beheadings, the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia advertised for 8 new executioners. A low end civil service job, the main duties are, "executing a judgement of death" and amputations.
pDxe TIL: The word “Anarchy” stands for “Without Rulers” instead of “Without Rules”
rZeo TIL that South Africa manufactured large quantities of MDMA and deployed it for crowd control during the apartheid era