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TIL the 1522 Affair of the Sausages sparked the Reformation in Zürich when pastor Huldrych Zwingli defended eating sausage during Lent, arguing from Martin Luther’s doctrine of sola scriptura that Christians are free to fast or not, since the Bible does not forbid eating meat in Lent.

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6E45X TIL William "Wild Bill" Douglas, the longest-serving Supreme Court Justice, argued that the Vietnam War was illegal, that we should be able to sue on behalf of the environment, and that contraception bans violated our Right to Privacy. Later, the FBI planted marijuana on his property to entrap him.
9wboG TIL John Barker Church, brother in law of Alexander Hamilton via Angelica Schuyler, in 1799 had a duel with Aaron Burr. They both missed and Church Apologized.
4XD75 TIL in April of 1968, Jane Elliot did a racial experiment where she turned her third grade class of students against one another based solely on the color of their eyes.
jN60a TIL Thomas Edison would give potential employees a bowl of soup during the interview, if they salted or peppered the soup before tasting it they wouldn't get the job. This was to test whether the employees had analytical minds and didn't make assumptions.
WkgnB TIL that in Rwanda, single-use plastics are banned