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TIL that there are 7 primary keyholders of the Internet. Each keyholder is chosen for their geographical spread and Internet security background to ensure that no one country has more keyholders. The keyholders are a last resort option in case something catastrophic happens to the world's Internet.

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8emdX TIL that in 1958, a U.S. Air Force bomber accidentally dropped a nuclear bomb on South Carolina. The bomb didn’t have its nuclear core installed, but when it hit the ground, its conventional explosives went off. The blast injured six people and damaged several buildings in the area.
knB TIL that in a kingdom in India it was illegal for women to cover their breasts until the 19th century.
Y7KAB TIL about the St. Patrick's Battalion, a unit in the Mexican American war on the Mexican side. Made up largely of Irish Catholics, it contained a number of other Catholics from around Europe, and elsewhere, as well. Led by Irishman John Riley, the unit had ~700 men at its height.
jNJav TIL that, between 1907 and 1922, American-born women who married non-citizens automatically lost American citizenship. In 1917, hundreds of American women who had married German men were forced to register with the government as 'enemy aliens'.
yQE78 TIL Alaric, famous for sacking Rome in 410, was able to do so because he enjoyed the poetry of Claudian. Claudian had described a route through the alps into Italy in his poems, which Alaric found and was thus able to use and evade direct contact with the Roman army for 6-9 months.