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TIL Galileo was ordered to turn himself in to the Holy Office to begin trial for holding the belief that the Earth revolves around the sun, which was deemed heretical by the Catholic Church

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NX5bM TIL that the UK version of the movie "Every Day" is cut by 4s to remove a scene (cut marks shown on a girl's arm) to secure a 12A certificate instead of a 18. Surprisingly, the Irish release is uncut at the same rating, despite the fact that Britain and Ireland form the same distribution region.
kJrg7 TIL that in 1888, a woman named Bertha Benz became the first person to drive an automobile over a long distance when she took her husband's experimental three-wheeled Benz Patent-Motorwagen on a 65-mile journey from Mannheim to Pforzheim in Germany.
XEy1X TIL that Cuban ballet dancers are arguably the country’s most esteemed export, they often earn more money than doctors, and they perform locally to the type of cheering crowd that in the USA would be reserved for pop stars
MKMm TIL In 1861 a slave took over a confederate ship and delivered it to the Union. He later was given the ship to command during the Civil War. After the war he bought the house he was a slave in, and became a US congressman.
rWNx TIL During the Cold War the US considered airdropping enormous condoms labeled “Medium” onto the Soviets, to demoralize them against an anatomically superior American Army.