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TIL Porn viewers are more likely to see women as equals than non-viewers

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XENx6 TIL that in the USSR, when foreign music was banned, bootleg records were made on old x-rays pulled from medical trash. These were called "ribs" and "bone records".
Yp9oP TIL in Alabama, Georgia, Louisiana, Mississippi, North Carolina, and Tennessee, vehicle owners can request a state-issued license plate featuring the Sons of Confederate Veterans logo, which incorporates the square Confederate battle flag.
m1Kyp TIL The black death caused an inflation of dowries in medieval Florence which the government solved by establishing a public dowry fund: when a girl turned 5, families would deposit on the dowry bank on her behalf, which would accrue about 10% a year and would be withdrawn when she got married
l7Ob1 TIL a special edition Willy Wonka and Oompa Loompa Pop sold for $100,000 in May 2022, making it the most expensive Funko Pops in the world
4kLpR TIL that Jehovah's Witnesses sent a letter to Hitler asking him to stop persecuting them because they shared the same ethical goals as the Nazi party