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TIL parents at a school in Idaho called police on a book giveaway event for an award-winning young adult novel banned from the school curriculum because it was “anti-christian”

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D18bp TIL that stethoscope was invented because the inventor felt uncomfortable placing his ear directly onto a woman's chest
DawY TIL that during the Prohibition, grape juice mix was sold with the warning “After dissolving the brick in a gallon of water, do not place the liquid in a jug away in the cupboard for twenty days, because then it would turn into wine.”
QNKda TIL after murdering a woman in 1821, convicted killer John Horwood was hanged, had his body dissected and his skin was used to bind a book that contained the details of his crime in a practice called anthropodermic bibliopegy.
rNyQy TIL that in 1860 the original 13th amendment to the Constitution was intended to preserve slavery in the states that already had it. Known as the Corwin Amendment, it was an attempt to forestall secession. It was passed by Congress, but ratification by states was suspended when the Civil War began.
BJpe TIL that 18 states do not allow the parental rights of rapists to be terminated. This is true even if the rapist is convicted.