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TIL Ikea made an ad that encouraged women to pee on it, and if they were pregnant it revealed a special discounted price for cribs

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697aJ TIL Lincoln made no mention of Pilgrims, Plymouth or Natives when he codified Thanksgiving as a national holiday.
VMlnm TIL On his second day in office, President Jimmy Carter pardoned all of the Vietnam War draft evaders.
dDeM8 TIL: In some US states, public urination is enough to get you onto the sex offender registry. Furthermore, 25% of of registrants are juveniles/minors, and children as young as 9 have been placed on the list.
6EmDZ TIL that Ishi is known as the “last wild Indian” in America. He lived most of his life outside modern culture after his tribe, the Yahi (of the Yana group) became extinct in the late 1800s because of the California Gold Rush. He lived alone in the wilderness after his family died.
Wkd79 TIL a 2007 study of the 1918 Flu in American cities showed relaxing social distancing too early could result in a reversal of a declining infection rate called a double-peaked epidemic.