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TIL about George Epooch, a Jesuit priest who abused dozens of indigenous children throughout the 60’s, 70’s and 80’s

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X0aYD TIL Virginia Woolf, Horace de Vere Cole and others pretended to be the Prince of Abyssinia and his entourage. They obtained permission to visit the HMS Dreadnought. It was reported that each time the Commander showed them a marvel of the ship, they murmured the phrase "bunga, bunga!"
v1EOj TIL that the name of the Royal Navy ship HMS Petard means "HMS Fart". A petard is a small bomb that derives its name from middle French for “to break wind.” Pun-loving Shakespeare probably knew this when he wrote “hoist with his own petard” - or to be blasted with his own fart
7mjL TIL 99.7% of Japanese court cases result in conviction
oBMJr TIL that the Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882 was one of the first cases in the US to prevent a specific ethnic group from entering the country
b6wN TIL McDonald’s has a website just for Black people