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TIL that the USS Gerald R Ford, America's newest aircraft carrier - and the world's largest - doesn't have any urinals because every bathroom is gender neutral

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lZdN TIL the inverted cross only became associated with Satan in the 19th Century when a French cult leader was accused of holding erotic Black Masses. He believed the inverted crucifix symbolised the ‘Reign of Love’ as opposed to the 'Reign of Suffering’ of the traditional cross
jNrj TIL some Micronesians made mock airstrips, radios, etc., and imitated military drills post WWII as religious ceremony so airplanes would deliver manufactured goods.
6eAQ TIL Jews fought side-by-side with Muslim soldiers to defend Jerusalem against the Crusaders.
a8d6J TIL In 1922 organized groups of people in New York were beating up pedestrians who forgot to switch hats after the end of the summer as fashion rules demanded
e0jQk TIL In 1858, Swiss astronomer Johann Rudolf Wolf published his formula for determining the daily sunspot number: k(10g + f); where g is the number of sunspot groups; f is the number of individual sunspots; and k is a calibration factor, different for each observer