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TIL no one knows exactly how many Federal Laws are currently enacted in the United States.

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QWMd TIL Jimmy Carter, the 39th US President, was the first president to be born in a hospital
7rKvO TIL that household company names like DuPont, American Express, and Brooks Brothers each played an active part in the American Civil War.
K5yE TIL that after the death of Swaziland’s King Sobhuza II in 1982, the reigning queen enforced a 75-day mourning period that only allowed commerce essential to the life of the nation. During this time, the queen outlawed sexual intercourse and those caught were punished by flogging.
XBBj TIL in 2011 a family agreed to a lifetime gag order as part of a settlement with a fracking company. An attorney for the company said they intend to enforce the gag order on the children too, who were then seven and ten-years-old.
awo70 TIL that Marlon Brando, Gene Hackman and, even briefly, Burt Reynolds were all considered for the role of R.P. McMurphy in "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest" before the part was given to Jack Nicholson.