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TIL Starship Troopers is the first sci-fi novel on the reading lists of three of the five US military branches

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e0bRL TIL I would not have been drafted in the 1970 Vietnam War Lottery. I was born in the 90s so I obviously never had chance anyways but something about it is still relieving.
eLAb TIL that smoking was not banned on airplanes in the US until 1988. And it was only a partial ban at that
XEnkP TIL about Brigham Young, a Mormon who stated that "the idea of plural marriage" made him "desire the grave.". He went on to have fifty-five wives and fifty-six children.
4Xg6R TIL About “Banned in Boston” where Bostonian Puritans would ban a movie/play/book/artwork and thus add immeasurably to it’s value everywhere else - as it was now officially salacious and forbidden
YgpW TIL that the public had little knowledge of FDR’s paralysis and that he had a “gentleman’s agreement” with the press to not photograph him in his wheelchair