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TIL Sean Connery gave an interview in 1987 defending his opinion that there are times when it’s appropriate to slap a woman.

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6aKZ TIL The Supreme Court unanimously decided that tomatoes were vegetables
LkM1r TIL of Project Thor which explored using large projectiles from 1,000+ miles above the Earth. The "rods from god" idea was a bundle of telephone-pole-size tungsten rods, dropped from orbit, reaching up to 10 times the speed of sound. The explosion would be on par with a nuke - but no fallout.
a8gBA TIL the Buddhas of Bamiyan were built in 570 and 618 CE and were a holy site for buddhas along the Silk Road. They were destroyed by the Taliban in 2001.
J1rdl TIL an amateur historian in Rhode Island unearthed an Arabic coin believed to be part of the most profitable act of piracy in history - the 1695 capture of an Indian fleet and treasure by the English pirate Henry Every, estimated to by worth $400 million in today's money.
MDjB TIL that some vegans choose not to eat honey because they consider beekeeping to be slavery