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TIL that only seven states have banned mandatory microchipping of humans

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ADD5o Yes, technically, but not nearly enough.
MMO8 TIL that it’s not 2013 in North Korea. The year is 102, because North Korea marks years from the birth of Kim Il-sung, not Jesus.
9YWEQ TIL that Isaac Newton was elected to parliament to represent Cambridge. It is reported that the only time Newton spoke in parliament was to say, "The window needs closing."
lMnB TIL that Jim Jones, leader of Peoples Temple declared to his followers that all men were homosexual, except for him, despite being arrested and charged for soliciting a man for sex. NSFW
WxJA TIL in The Vagina Monologues a 13-year-old girl is raped by a 24-year old woman, and it is referred to as “a good rape” & a healing experience. When a man at a newspaper wrote an article asking why rape was only wrong when a man committed it, but woman-on-woman rape was celebrated, he was fired.