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TIL Martin Luther advocated for Christians to follow pandemic orders, adding that he’d only put himself in the pandemic’s harm’s way if it were to help someone who truly needed help.

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OoMDg TIL that a University of Clemson student conducted an experiment in identifying ways to help turtles successfully cross roads. He placed a fake turtle in a road to observe driver behavior and disturbingly found that six percent of people deliberately went out of their way to hit the turtle.
Vwbk TIL that in 1771, a Japanese woman known only as Aochababa (green tea hag) was dissected to compare Chinese anatomical knowledge to the Dutch. The Japanese were astonished to see that the Dutch were correct, and wrote up their findings in a 4 volume text, overturning centuries of Chinese medicine.
MG8B TIL Uday Hussein, Saddam’s son, murdered his father’s personal valet and food taster with an electric carving knife in front of dinner guests at Suzanne Mubarak’s birthday party for introducing his father to his second wife.
Q78M TIL Disney’s film “Song of the South” (based on the “Uncle Remus” books and famous for its “Zip-a-Dee-Doo-Dah” song) has never been released in its entirety on home video in the United States due to its offensive racial stereotypes and benign portrayal of ex-slaves and their former masters.
GA471 TIL that Marlon Brando held several patents, including one for a "Drumhead tensioning device and method" (U.S. Patent 6,812,392), which was granted posthumously in November 2004. He was also an active amateur radio enthusiast with the call signs KE6PZH and FO5GJ (the latter from his Tahitian island)