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pYJN TIL that the Whipping Tom of 1681 would assault women, lifting their dresses and slapping their buttocks while yelling “Spanko!”.
wL1V8 TIL: Despite having a lower rate of smoking, the United States has a 10x higher rate of lung cancer than Japan.
69M4m TIL about the Rubens tube, also known as a flame tube, invented by German physicist Heinrich Rubens in 1905. A tube capped on both ends is filled with gas has 100 tiny flames that creates soundwave visualization
y8ow TIL a surviving eyewitness to Abraham Lincoln’s 1865 assassination gave an account of the event on TV in 1956.
BrWnW TIL that this is the 100th anniversary of the Jallianwala Bagh massacre where the British gunned down 1500 peaceful Indian protesters in 10 minutes. Colonel Dryer, the man who ordered the massacre said he “wanted to punish Indians for disobedience.”