› added 4 years ago

116

TIL in 2005, a strip club in Bloise, Idaho, managed to sidestep city laws banning total nudity in public by offering customers the chance to make drawings depicting its dancers. The law forbids full nudity in public unless the display has "serious artistic merit".

Read more news.bbc.co.uk

via reddit.com

MeNPB TIL that Orville Wright, the younger of the two Wright Brothers, expressed sadness about the death and destruction brought about by the bombers of World War 2, stating “I once thought the aeroplane would end wars. I now wonder whether the aeroplane and the atomic bomb can do it.”
ne4BY TIL Weird Al’s “The Saga Begins,” which summarizes the plot of The Phantom Menace, was written two months before the movie’s release. He wrote most of the song using rumors leaked onto the Internet.
GYYwG TIL that although outlawed in 1911, the ban on the Chinese practice of footbinding only began to be enforced six years ago.
XEJw6 TIL most of the USS Indianapolis crew thought the secret crate they were transporting contained 50,000 rolls of scented toilet paper for Gen. MacArthur. They were actually transporting the nuclear bomb 'Little Boy'.
DQder [TIL] The murder of 14 year old Bobby Franks committed by Leopold and Loeb to execute a "perfect crime" inspired by Nietzsche’s concept of Übermenschen