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TIL golfers were arrested in South Carolina for teeing it up on a Sunday – a clear violation of the state’s Blue Laws. The laws, which were heavily influenced by the Ten Commandments, were strictly enforced by Governor John G. Richards.

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jNORM TIL the Red, White, & Blue Bomb Pop was created the summer of 1955 as Cold War tensions between the US and Soviet Union were heating up, with nervousness and caution surrounding a possibility of nuclear war building to a fever pitch. Marketed as a Patriotic Popsicle, associated with the 4th of July.
eWkk TIL that in the US, in order to be legally called “chocolate”, a product must contain cocoa butter. Phrases like “chocolatey” and “chocolate flavored” are used for products that do not contain cocoa butter, but instead use other vegetable oils. These have a different taste than “real chocolate”.
b6PQZ TIL that Catherine Parr was 31 years old and twice widowed when she married 52-year-old King Henry VIII in 1543. Three years later, she became a widow for the third time. A few years after Henry’s death, she married Thomas Seymour, the brother of Henry’s third wife.
bQ1j TIL the deepest hole ever dug was only .002% of the way to the center of the earth
M7BYB TIL Francesco Guicciardini's father refused to make his son a priest, out of principal, even if it meant less money. As a layman Francesco ended up working for 20 years as the Pope's right hand man. He privately wrote that he hated the clergy, but self interest demanded to keep working for them