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TIL In France it was illegal for women to wear trousers until 2013

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4DrR TIL John Lydon (Johnny Rotten) called out notorious pedophile radio personality Jimmy Savile for his crimes in 1978.
WkGM9 TIL Alexander Fleming discovered penicillin through his hobby of microbial art. Leaving a Petri dish painting of bacteria unattended for two weeks it was being killed by Penicillium fungus. Thus the antibiotic properties were studied leading to Penicillin.
b61BQ TIL about the Hyoid bone, or the “bone that floats in the throat”. Call me slow, but does anyone else remember learning about this in school?
8ylb TIL that creating a Death Star would cost roughly $850,000,000,000,000,000 and that it would take about 833,000 years to build. It would also need a laser of 1,000,000,000,000,000 kilograms worth of matter to have enough energy to destroy a planet for each time it was fired.
R7gP7 TIL that in 1921 private police in the US dropped bombs and mustard gas on a coal miners’ camp when they went on strike for better working conditions