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TIL six out of the eight competitors in the 100-meter final in the Seoul 1988 Olympics were found to have taken performance enhancing drugs

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JZdB TIL that dating was such a novelty in the early 1900s that women were often misperceived as prostitutes and arrested for letting a man buy them dinner
ANd8l TIL US Postal Inspector and Anti-Vice activist Anthony Comstock used his position to attack "obscene" books and birth control. He boasted he was responsible for 4,000 arrests, while biographers have attributed 15 suicides to Comstock's persecutions.
wYWW TIL The metric system never gained momentum in the US because it was deemed “atheistic” in the 19th century.
klN1 TIL a group of hedgehogs is called a “prickle.”
WwjL TIL the infamous RickRoll’d video is not available in the United States anymore.