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TIL: There are depictions of Medieval Knights fighting Snails in ancient manuscripts…and nobody knows why

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l7X8G TIL there's a "sex for fish" trade in some developing African countries, in which women have transactional sex with fishermen to secure their supply of fish.
R7Lw TIL Karl Marx’s son-in-law wrote a book entitled “The Right To Be Lazy”
epOnD TIL that in Japan, condemned prisoners are only informed of their execution date one or two hours before it happens.
oR87K TIL DC planned to make their first black headlining superhero "The Black Bomber," a white bigot who transformed into a black superhero under stress. Comics historian Don Markstein later described the character as "an insult to practically everybody with any point of view at all".
BrrKy TIL the unit used to measure shoes/feet in Britain is called a Barleycorn (1/3rd of an inch)