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Today I Learned Volume 002

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nWxJd TIL That Marie Antoinette’s scandalous fashion choice of wearing lingerie as outerwear directly instigated a dramatic rise in American slavery.
YGvZ TIL Eric Clapton was long-conned by a witch who got him to take herbal baths, smear his own blood, & chant midnight incantations, all with a phone call. She convinced him to fly to the US to have sex with a virgin (herself), began asking for money, then sent pregnant pics of herself to the tabloids.
aaR9 TIL George Orwell worked writing propaganda during World War II, and the experience helped shape his novel 1984
Bdvr TIL Ancient Romans would sell themselves into slavery rather than pay taxes.
4krRX TIL that it used to be a requirement for people in the United States to submit to a blood test when they were applying for marriage licenses. The last state to get rid of this mandatory testing was Montana in 2019.