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TIL that one of the earliest forms of biological warfare was used by the Mongols, who would catapult plague-infected bodies over city walls to infect their enemies.

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QNd0k TIL that in 1948 comedy writers at the BBC were forbidden to make jokes about lavatories and effeminacy in men or make suggestive references to honeymoon couples, chambermaids, fig leaves, prostitution, ladies' underwear, animal habits (e.g. rabbits), lodgers, and commercial travellers.
OGEaR TIL: there exists a porn parody of “Bob’s Burgers” titled “Bob’s Boners” and most of the shows cast and crew is aware of it.
graY8 TIL 2 teens secretly scaled the Acropolis on 5/30/41 in Nazi-occupied Greece & stole the Nazi flag that was flying atop it. Their heroic act of defiance inspired Greeks to believe themselves capable of resisting the Nazis & their occupation of Greece. The teens were never caught & died of old age!
GADkQ TIL modern vehicular cruise control was invented by a blind inventor and mechanical engineer, Ralph Teetor due to being frustrated by his driver's habit of speeding up and slowing down as he talked.
69108 TIL Italy banned tourists from going shirtless