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LkJkv TIL that in 1938, a man in prison trained a cockroach to smuggle him cigarettes. He was later released because the warden said "a man who can train a cockroach doesn't belong in prison".
1aM1D TIL A rare photo of Amelia Earhart shows her riding a scooter in the 1930s with a published caption reading, “In the near future, we are told, no one will walk at all."
0wvZN TIL when the Vatican Archives published records on the Templar Order, it showed that the Inquisition had discovered the Templars were not heretics, but in fact a knighthood for homosexuals. The Pope decided to close the knighthood "for the good of the church" when this discovery was made.