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TIL that in 1958 interracial marriage was a felony in Virginia

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OG5xL TIL that Jared Fogle first came to media attention in April 1999 because of an article published in the Indiana Daily Student written by a former dormmate about Fogle losing 245 lb (111 kg) by exercising and eating a diet of Subway sandwiches.
ymp8 TIL when Australian driver Alan Jones won the 1977 Austrian Formula 1 Grand Prix, the race organisers didn’t have a copy of his national anthem to play at the podium ceremony (unaware that it was God Save The Queen). Instead, a drunk person played “Happy Birthday” on a trumpet.
MeJd7 TIL that the Morton Salt Company(Girl in a Yellow Dress) was the same company that caused the Challenger disaster(Morton-Thiokol).
jNmQa TIL: England had a huge array of crimes punishable by the death penalty, with some odd ones in there like "being in the company of Gypsies for one month"
69Mj7 TIL that only 12% of Americans are metabolically healthy, or 1 in 8 Americans.