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TIL there's a Japanese photographer spending his life shooting women’s thighs

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Br1Ab TIL that 237 black sharecroppers in Arkansas were murdered by a mob of white WW1 vets in 1919 because they tried to unionize.
4XvRw TIL about Hookworms. Parasites that run rampant in the southern US that cause lethargy, intense brain fog, and a distended belly. This is where the stereotype of a “dumb, lazy, potbellied southerner” comes from.
78nZx TIL of HEXAGON, a spy satellite used by the USA during the 1960s that captured several miles of film at a time, airdropping them into the ocean for recovery
GYgQN TIL when firing the Germans biggest cannon in WW1, they had to move 300 yards away and fire it electrically. They were still so close they required cotton wadding in their eyes, nose and ears, and fired it with their mouth open to prevent the gun from blowing out their ear drums.
76Jp TIL that Freddie Mercury’s mother is still alive. Her name is Jer Bulsara, and she is 93.