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TIL it is against federal law to deceptively fill a container with less than its capacity

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ANd8l TIL US Postal Inspector and Anti-Vice activist Anthony Comstock used his position to attack "obscene" books and birth control. He boasted he was responsible for 4,000 arrests, while biographers have attributed 15 suicides to Comstock's persecutions.
LkJ6v TIL in 19th-Century America, popcorn was eaten with milk and sweetener as a breakfast cereal.
e0D8b TIL that during testing of The Legend of Zelda in 1986, the testers complained that the game was too confusing and that they kept getting lost. As a result of this, Shigeru Miyamoto decided to make the game even harder by starting off the player without a weapon.
mxgZx TIL about a place called Elan School which promised to "fix" your teenager for $40k a year. Turns out they were forced to live in squalor, physically fight, and psychologically abuse each other to earn basic privileges like food and sleep.
b6ML0 TIL Michael Crichton was 6'9" and felt socially isolated as a result.