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TIL it is still illegal to join a Communist Party in the USA

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gOkD TIL the first issue of Life magazine, entitled “Life Begins,” featured the birth of a baby named George Story. A month after LIFE announced its closure in 2000, Story died of heart failure, and Life’s final issue was entitled “A Life Ends.”
9YjZQ TIL that Christopher Guest (of Spinal Tap and Best in Show fame) is from a long line of a British aristocrats. He is a member of the House of Lords and his official title is The Right Honorable Lord Hayden-Guest
9wdDB TIL that David Lee Roth, former vocalist of Van Halen, is a also a state-licensed emergency medical technician in New York. In 2012, he said: "I probably have over 200 9-1-1 calls on my ticket in the last six years alone. I live a very different life away from music."
vPbeB TIL The actress that played Carol Anne in all 3 Poltergeist movies died at the age of 12 of a heart attack.
Me80 TIL in 1778, Thomas Jefferson authored a bill that would change the penalty for rape or sodomy from death, to castration.