Today

epbx6 TIL In WW2 Germany, Lilly Wust, a mother of 4 married to a Wehrmacht soldier, had a forbidden romance with Felice Schragenheim, a Jewish female resistance fighter. Felice was captured (and later killed), but Lilly continued to risk her own life by helping the resistance.
P1Dlg TIL between 1764 and 1767, a mysterious animal known as the Beast of Gévaudan terrorized a rural region in France. It attacked over 200 people, killed at least 100, and partially ate 98 of them. Theories range from it being a wolf, lion, hyena, a large dog, a werewolf, or an extinct species
8eOGG TIL in 2019 an MMA fight was called off and ruled no contest, after it was decided there was too much blood on the ground. Both fighters were slipping on the blood by the second round.
l7b6K TIL In the 16th–17th centuries, Japan banned Christianity after first welcoming missionaries from Portugal. Shoguns viewed the growing faith as a threat to political control and social unity, issuing the 1614 ban that destroyed churches, persecuted converts, and expelled missionaries
NXJBb TIL that pharmacist Sulpice Debauve designed the first solid chocolate mixed with medicine to alleviate Marie Antoinette's headaches. The chocolate shop he opened still stands today.
rNbGd TIL the original cast of Jackass included a female cast member but she was brutally injured during a stunt and left the group
BgYWy TIL an apocryphal book, The Apocalypse of Peter, told that Hell wouldn't always be eternal; that there'd be a way for sinners to leave Hell after already being condemned there. Early Christian leaders considered this book heretical & therefore did not include it in the Biblical canon.
Y7bMx TIL, in 2019, a Canadian fire department accidentally ordered 18 pizzas from a Texas pizza restaurant instead of a local pizzeria, and decided to have the pizzas delivered to San Antonio first responders. The incident led to a cross-border friendship and a Random Acts of Pizza campaign.
Eg76o TIL that when his son Isaac was charged with murder, Kentucky Gov. Joseph Desha pulled strings to overturn two guilty verdicts. When Isaac attempted suicide before his third trial, Joseph pardoned him. Isaac would later confess, only after he was arrested for a second murder.
kJbw5 TIL that in 2001 three men in Georgia camped beside two warm metal cylinders they found in the snow, not knowing they were abandoned Soviet RTG cores containing Strontium-90. All three developed acute radiation syndrome and one later died.
786ZM TIL when Monty Python's Life of Brian was released in 1979, its religious satire subject matter was highly controversial. It was banned by 11 local councils in the UK, nationwide in Norway and Ireland. The film was marketed in Sweden with the tag line "So funny it was banned in Norway."
Zpb0v TIL that the hepatitis E virus was discovered by a Soviet physician when he ingested fecal samples from 22 soldiers during a presumed non-hepatitis A outbreak in Uzbekistan, developed hepatitis 36 days later and then had his stool examined under electron microscopy.