newenglandhistoricalsociety.com

m1vav TIL in 1656 Boston, a ship's captain was sentenced to sit in the stocks for two hours because he had engaged in "lewd and unseemly behavior" on the Sabbath. Upon arriving home on a Sunday after a three-year voyage at sea, Captain Kemble had kissed his wife
NXGxE TIL: 21 year old P.T. Barnum became a bit of a liberal celebrity after publishing an article excoriating a local church dignitary for the crime of “taking usury of an orphan boy." Which landed Barnum in jail for more than two months.
78eLX TIL Due to atmospheric anomalies, during WWII a farmhouse in Rhode Island was able to intercept enemy radio transmissions from around the world | Even German tank-to-tank communications in North Africa