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TIL women in the early 1900’s would stab catcallers with their hatpins

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vPv7x TIL that Hugo Gutmann, Hitler's commanding officer in WW1 who recommended him for the Iron Cross, was Jewish. He was later granted special exemption from anti-Jewish laws and permitted to emigrate to the US.
0w9vR TIL That chickens are used to detect diseases that spread via mosquito. They don’t get ill from the diseases and don’t develop high enough levels of the diseases to spread them, but the we can still check for the diseases in their blood. They are also called ‘Sentinel Chickens.’
VrMp TIL the inventor of the smiley face only made $45.
Yp9mv TIL Bruce Jay Friedman attributed the inspiration for his groundbreaking play 'Steambath' (which was the first to show nudity on broadcast TV in America) to "bad experience with the food at a Chinese restaurant"
5VV8p TIL There is a sunken ship near the coast of England with roughly 1.500 tons of unexploded unstable explosives, that could go off by it self.