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TIL of "Kentucky's Most Hated Man" atheist Charles Moore. He was imprisoned for his outspoken opposition to religion and the Bible and for mailing obscene literature about "Free Love", a social movement that accepts all forms of love.

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R7jDa TIL that Grover Cleveland was a sheriff for three years, during which time he personally hanged two men
xGy0 TIL that there is a theory by reputable physicists that the universe is made up of one electron that is moving forward and backward in time.
XapP TIL we typically do not start to think of foods as “too sweet” until our bone growth stops. Younger children have virtually no limit to the amount of sugar they find palatable.
p84VG TIL the main guy behind creating U.S. National Parks—John Muir—may have never had a deep love of nature had he not suffered a major eye injury while working as a mechanic: “I bade adieu to all my mechanical inventions, determined to devote the rest of my life to the study of the inventions of God”
E15a0 TIL for a period in the early 1970s the North Korean GDP per capita was higher than the South Korean one.