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TIL In 1992, Singer Sinéad O'Connor tore up a picture of Pope John Paul II during a performance on Saturday Night Live to protest the abuse of children within the Catholic Church. It was extremely controversial at the time and she was heavily criticised in the media.

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eEX6 TIL Astronaut Ed Mitchell said of his experience on the moon in 1971: “From out there on the moon, international politics look so petty. You want to grab a politician by the scruff of the neck and drag him a quarter of a million miles out and say, ‘Look at that, you son of a bitch.’”
mxnY TIL that 9 hikers in Russia were found dead in 1959. They ripped their tents open from the inside, ran barefoot through the snow at -30 degrees C, and were found with crushed skulls and one was missing their tounge. AND their clothing was found to be highly radioactive.
jNwLn TIL The rescue of Denmark’s Jews during WWII was so successful, that 99% of the country’s Jewish population escaped. From October 1943, 7,220 of Denmark's 7,800 Jews were ferried to Sweden. At the request of the group, Yad Vashem honoured the Danish Resistance as a whole, than as individuals.
nWJlo TIL of Abe Reles, a New York Jewish mobster who became a government informant on Murder, Inc. After falling out of a window to his death, newspapers dubbed him "The Canary Who Could Sing, But Couldn't Fly".
Y7W5r TIL Qin Shi Huang, China’s first emperor, was so obsessed with immortality that he drank ‘elixirs’ made with mercury, sought out virgin blood, and sent entire fleets to find mythical islands of eternal life.”