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TIL there is 1 school remaining in the U.S. that employs shock therapy treatment on students. The FDA attempted to ban the use of their in-house built electro-shock devices which was overturned by the D.C. Court of Appeals in 2021.

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8a444 TIL Chickens will sometimes eat their eggs and develop a taste for them. Sometimes, this can be caused by a calcium deficiency in their diet but other times, they just develop a taste for the rich food source and have to be culled or they can teach this to the other hens.
YyGP TIL that Samuel Caldwell was the first person in America to be arrested for selling marijuana. Arrested in 1937 for selling two joints, he was sentenced to a $1000 fine and four years of hard labor. This happened in one of the only places in America where pot is legal today, Denver Colorado.
awrJ9 TIL that Durex released a service called SOS condom, where condoms would get delivered to houses in 2 hours. It launched in Dubai, but the government banned it in a week. They ran an internet poll to vote on where it would be next, but trolls voted for the city “Batman” and won, and it was canned.
GA07 TIL In 1935, US Supreme Court honored Prophet Muhammad as one of the Greatest Lawgivers of the world.
PYdyg TIL Most people are only six to ten connections away from being able to contact anyone else in the world. The theory is known as "Six degrees of separation" and was created in 1929, but still holds true even after the world population grew by almost six billion.