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TIL that Thomas Jefferson proposed a bill that punished male rapists with castration.

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YpJnW TIL of Vladimir Pokhilko, the co-creator of Tetris. A Russian academic and clinical psychologist, he helped shaped the final version of the game with Alexey Pajitnov. He was in financial ruin later in life and killed his family and himself in 1998.
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