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TIL nearly 88% of schizophrenics smoke or vape tobacco

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epOZL TIL that in 1938, a 23 year-old Frank Sinatra was arrested in New Jersey on charges of "Seduction" and "Adultery".
jNp1N TIL Disney World has the power to establish schools, form their own criminal justice system and construct a nuclear power plant, although they have not chosen to do that yet.
NAjQ TIL A decade before the SR-71 first flew, the Military had a Mach 4.3 capable Ramjet created to test its own air defenses. It was so effective, it was cancelled to avoid embarrassing the military’s own air defenses any further. The man who designed it went on to create the SR-71 spyplane.
yvD8 TIL during the middle ages there was a legal category called “enbrotherment” that allowed two men to share living quarters, pool their resources, and effectively live as a married couple. The couple shared “one bread, one wine, one purse.”
oRDP8 TIL that NYC architects once made a proposal for an upside down skyscraper, which would hang upside down suspended by air cables that would be attached to an asteroid.