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TIL that Benjamin Franklin tried to convince the Royal Academy of Brussels “To discover some Drug…that shall render the natural Discharges of Wind from our Bodies, not only inoffensive, but as agreeable as Perfumes.”

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drBj TIL there was an “anti-flirt club” in the 1920’s that protested “flirting motorists,” i.e. “men offering women rides with more than the intention of saving them a walk.”
gAxy TIL even though abortion is legal and not murder, murdering a pregnant woman is a double homicide.
gjL8 TIL despite the 1986 Chernobyl disaster, Ukraine still gets 47% of its electricity from nuclear energy, compared to United States’ 19%.
vP4Jr TIL A monument in Kyoto contains severed noses from 38000 Koreans and 30000 Chinese from a Japanese invasion in the 1590s. No Japanese textbook mentioned it until the 80s, after a publisher resisted pressure from the ministry of education to use a softer tone and praise the invasion leader Hideyoshi
Lkn89 TIL that a herd of wandering wild elephants have become celebrities in China as they make a 15 month, 500 km odyssey from their forest reserve. Rather than capture them, the Chinese support their migration via drone monitoring and corn and pineapple food deliveries