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TIL A guy named Anthony Disano duped an internet scammer 9 times in a row, costing him $65,000 in freight charges for bogus “expensive equipment” (old broken appliances)

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9YMyX TIL that the US had a lesbian First Lady in 1885-1886. She was Rose Cleveland--Grover Cleveland's youngest sister and Acting US First Lady before Grover married in 1886. She was also a lesbian & had a relationship with a wealthy widow, Evangeline Marrs Simpson, with explicitly erotic correspondence.
7Nvx TIL in the 50s, teenagers having a stable monogamous relationship (“going steady”) was considered edgy and frowned upon by parents and the church as amoral. Instead they encouraged their kids to go out with different people every weekend. (read column on the right)
e0Kln TIL Korean college students once protested against the amount of air in potato chip packets by building a raft out of them and sailing across a river.
Y7yDd TIL there are depictions of Knights engaging Snails in battle drawn in the margins of late 13th century medieval written works like song & prayer books, & even papal letters. They include man-sized snails, snails hovering in mid air, & man/snail hybrids ridden by rabbits. Their origins are a mystery
vPLKL TIL that Matthew McConaughey has a brother named Rooster, who named his son Miller Lite and his daughter Margarita