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TIL That there are plots in porn because it used to be illegal to make pornography without plots in the 90s under the obscenity law

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pAxO TIL A man claimed an unclaimed 7 km2 piece of land between Serbia and Croatia as his own country and got approval from both countries. He called it “The Free Republic of Liberland”.
1aJwW TIL in 1856, 18 year old William Perkin accidentally discovered the colour mauve while attempting to synthesize a cure for malaria, upon which he abandoned his previous project and proceeded to revolutionize the synthetic dye industry.
yV7JJ TIL that the Vickers VC10 held the record for the fastest Atlantic crossing at 5 hours and 1 minute for 41 years, until a British Airways Boeing 747 surpassed it in 2020 with a time of 4 hours and 56 minutes.
9wkjp TIL About the Norwegian community of 2,000 people with 151 cases of sex crime
wvKo TIL of the US Supreme Court decision Buck v. Bell where the Court approved the practice of forced sterilization of citizens the state deemed unfit, including the intellectually disabled, in order to to improve the human race by eliminating “defectives” from the gene pool.