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TIL that Washington DC’s violent crime rates dramatically rose after banning handguns

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VMQ7Z TIL The window tax was a property tax based on the number of windows in a house. To avoid the tax some houses from the period can be seen to have bricked-up window-spaces . In England and Wales it was introduced in 1696 and was repealed in 1851, France and Scotland also had window taxes.
gA19 TIL that if someone has debt and dies, their family does not have to pay it off. But some banks will try to get them to anyway in case they think they need to.
xZWb TIL a woman in Phoenix, AZ sued her doctors for child support because they failed to discover her pregnancy in time for her to have it terminated. The jury unanimously rejected the lawsuit after 25 minutes of deliberation.
Lkr8Q TIL in 2014 a man was arrested for smuggling drugs stuffed inside an anti-drugs teddy bear.