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TIL that after the Supreme Court ruled inter-racial marriage legal, local judges in Alabama continued to enforce that state’s anti-miscegenation law (the same state that still refuses to issue same-sex marriage licenses)

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8eGpL TIL that there are five levels of closed-eye hallucinations
W76xA TIL that Jerry Springer was once mayor of Cincinnati, OH.
pjQ TIL, Kurt Cobain overdosed on heroin, was injected with antidote by Courtney Love, the proceeded perform at a concert without telling anybody
mBGP TIL that George Washington, John Adams, and Thomas Jefferson were Christian Deists and did not believe that Jesus Christ was divine.
wLAnM TIL that Benjamin Franklin, before becoming one of the chief architects of the U.S Constitution and a Founding Father, was staunch British loyalist, even going so far as to state, "I look on the colonies as so many counties gained to Great Britain."