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TIL that oral sex was illegal in 11 US states until 2003

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VBLKD TIL that Hernado Williams kidnapped Linda Goldstone while she was on her way to teach a class about natural birth deliveries. He kept her locked in his car at the parking lot of a courtroom while he was attending a hearing for a previous kidnapping charge
J1nEk TIL that actress Dame Margaret Rutherford's father killed his father by bludgeoning him to death with a chamberpot and was sent to a criminal lunatic asylum afterwards
WGVN TIL there were approximately 70 mass shootings in the US between 1982 and 2012. Just under 80% of the weapons used were obtained legally and the majority of perpetrators had signs of previous mental illness.
Y7JQ7 TIL that the Thirty Year War may have began when Czech nobles threw two Habsburg regents and their secretary out of Prague castle window onto a huge dungheap.
5V799 TIL that in 1995, Eli Roth wrote & directed a student film called "Restaurant Dogs"- an homage to Quentin Tarantino's 1992 film Reservoir Dogs. 10 years later, Tarantino would serve as an executive producer on Roth’s second feature film, "Hostel".