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l71QV TIL about the Travels of Sir John Mandeville, a 14th century account of an Englishman's travels across Asia to India and China. It contains references to strange creatures such as cyclopes, phoenixes and otters
4X4ga TIL in the early 1900s, women used hatpins to fend off sexual harassers in the streets. These pins were so effective in fending off assaulters that legislation was proposed to curb these “accessories to assault.” Men would often come away with wounds that were “not serious, but very painful.”
xjJD TIL a bank robber successfully used a Craigslist help-wanted ad for construction workers, specifying their uniform, to create unwitting decoys around the bank he robbed in matching uniform. His “getaway car” was an inner tube.
mxZ1x TIL, that according to US Naval tradition, submarines that have not been confirmed to be destroyed are still on patrol. Since WWII, there are 52 submarine patrols that have not reported in, returned to port, or confirmed to be destroyed
vPjNj Today I learned that the Albert Speer Jr., the son of Hitler's only known friend, was the lead designer of the 2008 Beijing Olympics.