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gM87b
TIL From mid-1700s til 1970s, countries & individual cities had "ugly laws" that deemed it illegal for "any person, who is diseased, maimed, mutilated or deformed in any way, so as to be an unsightly or disgusting object, to expose himself to public view."
LkMBP
TIL that because the Western European medieval monastic day began at 6 am, the word “noon” originally referred to “3 pm” and is derived from the Latin “nona hora” (“ninth hour”). During the 12th-14th centuries, its meaning in English shifted to “midday” and the time gradually moved back to 12 pm.
v1K8L
TIL that 12 U.S. prisoners of war died when the first atomic bomb was dropped on Hiroshima, and as many as 400 Allied POWs may have died as a result of the bombing of Nagasaki.