› added 3 months ago

11

TIL Martin Luther once wrote an essay titled: "Against the Murderous, Thieving Hordes of Peasants"

Read more wikipedia.org

via reddit.com

ADVk4 TIL that the United States had laws against cross dressing which were enforced well into the 1970s.
Z84jY TIL in the original cut of The Santa Clause Tim Allen's character looks at a phone number and says "1-800-SPANK-ME. I know that number." This scene was cut from all home media releases after a kid in Washington called the number - which led to an active sex hotline - and racked up a $400 phone bill.
m5Pv TIL that 98% of adoptions in Japan are of males aged 25-30, so that family businesses can remain within the family.
pMjp TIL that the Dutch first sighted Australia and never settled it, they described the island as a “wasteland”
woAw6 TIL of Vanessa Lawrence, a woman who was on the 91st floor of the World Trade Center (North Tower) as Flight 11 crashed into it, and survived with only a cut on her foot