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TIL only 1 woman ever won the medal of honour & they tried to take it away from her. She was an early feminist & nurse who refused to wear women’s clothing & was disliked by the leading suffragists who said she was giving the “wrong image” for her clothing style.

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Yp7Lv TIL that the finger wrinkling happening when in contact with water is triggered by an autonomic nervous response
0wp15 TIL that iPhones bought in Japan (and seemingly also South Korea) cannot be muted when using the camera, to avoid creeps taking covert photos and similar
PaVw TIL that a 14 year old black boy was brutally murdered for whistling at a white woman in Mississippi in 1955.
epmNb TIL that from 2012-2013, large and precisely cut pieces of flesh were found in sewers by workers on 3 separate occasions. These pieces were DNA tested and found out to be chunks of flesh from an unknown human being. There is no culprit to date
BrQLk TIL Czar Nicholas II actually wanted to meet with protesters and negotiate solutions, but his ministers rejected that idea and sent in soldiers to shoot at the protesters, triggering the 1905 revolution.