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TIL On this day in history Ozzy Osborne bought 3 rounds of drinks for everyone on a plane returning from spring break and sang “Crazy Train” over the PA system.

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KJV9 TIL during work on the Benjamin Franklin house, human remains from over 15 people were found hidden in the basement. The bones are dated to the time when Benjamin Franklin lived there. Corpse dissection was legal at the time; body snatching was not.
KZNR TIL That during and the French Revolution there was an attempt by various governments to remove all traces of Christianity from the country. It was known as Dechristianisation
pp5b TIL that after the Supreme Court ruled inter-racial marriage legal, local judges in Alabama continued to enforce that state’s anti-miscegenation law (the same state that still refuses to issue same-sex marriage licenses)
jNyaj TIL of the amazing and fearless POW dog Judy, who uplifted and protected British prisoners captured by the Japanese during WW2. She skirted death multiple times and survived the war. Her “master” built her a granite memorial inscribed with her life story when she died of old age
LoB9 TIL, Australia has an owl so large it hunts and eats possums, called the Powerful Owl.