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TIL In 1770, the British Parliament passed a law condemning lipstick, stating that “women found guilty of seducing men into matrimony by a cosmetic means could be tried for witchcraft.”

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e0lDk TIL that Pope Formosus’ corpse was dug up from its grave and tried in 897 by his 2nd successor Pope Stephen IV for “perjury and having acceded to the papacy illegally.” His corpse, propped up on a throne and appointed a deacon as his “advocate,” was found guilty, rendering his papacy null and void.
7rVZM TIL after sentencing veteran Green Beret to a night in jail for violating his probation, same judge who is also a vet learned what he was going through after reading his paperwork stayed overnight in the cell with him to be there for him
yGll TIL that until 1994, a pencil was inserted into a person’s hair to help determine a South African’s racial identity. If the pencil fell out easily, the person was considered white.
Ypebx TIL Naim Süleymanoğlu (AKA The Pocket Hercules) is the 1st and only weightlifter to have snatched 2.5 times his body weight, and the 2nd of only 7 lifters to date to clean and jerk 3x his body weight. He is the only weightlifter to date to clean and jerk 10 kilos more than 3x his bodyweight.
erJL TIL 53% of Indian children are sexually abused