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TIL: California is the only state that mandates comprehensive sex education

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KYJWB TIL that the over the 4 days of the assassination and funeral of JFK, was the longest uninterrupted media coverage until September 11, 2001.
KYjMw TIL that the Great Qing Legal Code was in force until 1971 in then-British Hong Kong
kJrDg TIL that Shaquille O'Neal was offered and declined the role of John Coffey in The Green Mile.
WGZd TIL Swedish millionaire Johan Eliasch purchased 400,000 acres of the Amazon Rainforest from a logging company for $14,000,000 for the sole purpose of its preservation.
7rWrb TIL when chess player Bobby Fischer beat soviet grandmaster Taimanov, Taimanov was thrown off the USSR team, forbidden to travel, banned from writing articles, and deprived of his monthly stipend. It virtually ended his career.