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TIL some Victorians got their nipples pierced.

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nWJkr TIL In 1835 The New York Sun published a series of articles claiming that there were bat-like humanoids living on the moon. The stories were entirely fictional, but they fooled some readers at the time.
e4GE TIL that over the last 100 years, the U.S. has almost emptied the aquifer that took nature more than 10,000 years to fill—and it’s the aquifer that waters our breadbasket region.
EMPd TIL the National Day of Prayer, which this year is today, was unsuccessfully challenged in court by the Freedom From Religion Foundation. The court said they are free to oppose it, but “they are not entitled to silence the speech of which they disapprove.”
6EAl TIL that the US wouldn’t agree to the 1954 Geneva Accords that would allow Vietnam to hold elections and vote for their own leaders. This refusal was a starting point for the Vietnam War.
wD71 TIL A 2015 U.K. survey found 49% of respondents listed ‘no religion’, while 42% indicated they were Christians