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TIL that in the 1920s a Chicago man convinced his wife to pull out all her teeth then refused to get her dentures because it was ‘cheaper to feed her with soup than solid food’. She took him to court and he was ordered to get her 2 new sets of teeth and a beefsteak a week.

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wLBEo TIL Lapland New Forest Christmas Park featured a smoking Santa, a reindeer with a broken antler, neglected huskies, a broken ice rink, and a picture of the nativity in a muddy field. With a £30 entry fee and 2hr long queue, one of elves was assaulted by angry visitors. The park was shut after 6 days
oBpoY TIL in Tennessee it is unlawful for any male person to willfully refuse to aid a policeman in making a lawful arrest when such a person's assistance is requested by the policeman and is reasonably necessary to effect the arrest.
J1dvB TIL About Kriegsnagelung or war nails. A fund raising system in WW1 where you paid to drive a nail into a statue. There were hundreds of these and I had never heard of them. Found one in a castle I visited this weekend.
4b4a TIL that when Neil deGrasse Tyson first saw the stars come out at the planetarium at 9 years old, he thought it was a hoax. Growing up in the Bronx, he’d never seen the stars before due to light pollution.
R5wA1 TIL the opium factory in Ghazipur, India has been in continuous operation since 1820. Established by the British East India Company the factory supplied opium for the opium trade which led to the two opium wars, first in 1839 and 1856 over the forced importation of opium to China.