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TIL some Victorians got their nipples pierced.

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By4y TIL Molly Pitcher manned a cannon during the Revolutionary War when her husband fainted from heat stroke or injury. She didn’t back down, even when a cannonball shot the skirt from between her legs.
L7bZ TIL that on February 15, 1961 a plane crash killed the entire US figure skating team and everyone else on board, but a dog in the cargo hold survived.
OoGgg When a United Airlines flight made an emergency landing this summer due to medical situations on board, as the oxygen masks fell down, some passengers’ phone cameras went up. But psychologists say the instinct to snap a selfie in a near-death experience isn’t all narcissism—it’s also about survival and self-preservation.
6MgW TIL that despite having a population of 310 million, 47% of the USA remains unoccupied. Of the 11,078,300 census blocks in the country, 4,871,270 reported a population of zero in 2010.
QNR6 TIL The question of why manhole covers are typically round was made famous by Microsoft when they began asking it as a job-interview question.