› added 39 minutes ago

TIL on January 8, 1977, a series of bomb attacks struck Moscow, targeting the metro system and other public places. The most significant was a bomb in the Moscow Metro, killing seven people and injuring dozens.

Read more wikipedia.org

via reddit.com

o4ZW TIL 86% of the victims of female sexual predators aren’t believed, so the crimes go unreported and don’t get prosecuted.
167KX TIL Last invasion of UK failed when French mistook Welsh women in traditional dress for troops
Ogx4 TIL that death row inmate Sean Sellers was executed despite a Court of Appeal ruling that he may be “factually innocent” but that “innocence alone is not sufficient to grant federal relief”
W7DpB TIL the US Ambassador to Czechoslovakia when it transitioned from communism to capitalism was Shirley Temple.
GYO9G TIL attorney Richard Luthmann, a Game of Thrones fan, asked a court for a trial by combat with sword and shield, arguing it had never been outlawed in the U.S. and that historically, people with debt collection disputes would settle them by beating each other with a bat. The court was not persuaded.