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TIL Hugh Hefner was tried on obscenity charges in Chicago in 1963, but the jury was hung.

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ANOe7 TIL about Miracle Village, a community for registered sex offenders in Palm Beach, Florida.
E1Eod TIL that Napoleon signed the Louisiana Purchase in his bathtub at the Tulleries Palace. An American hotelier in Louisiana bought the tub in 2006 and put it in a hotel in New Orleans for guests to bathe in.
4Ng6 TIL that the Aka tribe in Africa have no concept of homosexuality or masturbation. Sex is only viewed as work to produce children.
kJYbg TIL that Henry Gunther was the last soldier to die in World War I. The war ended at 11 AM and Gunther was killed at 10:59 AM while charging a German machine gun
Bg1Ar TIL that in 2004, Reason Magazine sent out 40,000 print magazines to their subscribers with each one of the covers displaying a satellite photo of the subscriber’s house. The feature article was about how databases can be utilized on a mass scale with automation.