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TIL The US Once Considered a Plan to Detonate a Nuclear Bomb on the Moon

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OGnm4 Today I learned that in 1634 Massachussets Puritans made long hair illegal for males.
Z8GEQ TIL Spanish Civil War jail cells were built like 3-D modern art paintings in order to torture prisoners
kO0Z4 TIL the ancient Greeks had a democratic process to nominate and vote to send any citizen away for 10 years. Like the opposite of an election.
KOGn9 TIL That actress Vanessa Marquez, who played nurse trainer Wendy on ER for three seasons, was shot and killed by LAPD officers who were performing a wellness check on her. The footage of their bodycam was just released.
9pKM TIL more people die each year in the US from STDs than ALL illicit drug abuse.