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TIL that disbarment for a lawyer in Wisconsin is only temporary

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ooRR TIL: The Pop Tart is an Americanized version of the Danish homemade “Hindbærsnitter”
BrOey TIL, In 1325, two Italian city-states fought over a bucket which resulted in 2,000 deaths. It started when two soldiers stole a bucket from a well from the city center. This is called The Battle of Zappolino (also known as the War of the Oaken Bucket)
4kog6 TIL about Tiddles, a tabby cat who made his home in the Ladies' toilets at Paddington Station in London. Visitors would constantly gift him choice cuts of meat, leading to staff installing a personal fridge for him. Tiddles eventually became so fat, he was described as "[...]a beach ball with fur."
9wkwB TIL that neuroscientists have created a device for the blind that allows them to “see” using electrical pulses on the tongue. Light is turned into pulses that eventually can be interpreted as vision by the brain.
W7w8o TIL that one in 18 people have a third nipple. Known as polythelia, the third nipple is caused by a mutation in inactive genes.