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TIL at the height of the Cuban Missile Crisis, the New York City Ballet was on tour in the USSR and the Bolshoi Ballet was on tour in the USA

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GYyVN TIL the Comstock act of 1873 labeled contraceptives obscene and carried a $5000 fine or 5 years hard labor for sending information about or contraceptives thru the mail. Abortifacients, obscenity (which includes poopies), sex toys or information concerning topics were included in the patent act.
r1ed TIL that the guy who offered the 100,000 Jews a safe haven in the Dominican republic was a bloodthirsty dictator
ZZYG TIL that after fighting, giraffes have gay sex
b80Z TIL that the ability to taste cucumbers is genetic. Those who with the gene tend not to like the bitter taste whereas those without the gene experience a nearly tasteless fruit.
VBlO4 TIL that the first face seen on a television screen was that of "Stooky Bill"—a chalk-white ventriloquist's dummy used by Scottish inventor John Logie Baird for his experiments to transmit a televised image. A dummy was used because the lights of this first TV studio were too hot for humans to bear.