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TIL that a fake nude photo of an American Congresswoman was debunked by foot fetishists who recognized through extensive experience that the toes in the photo were not the Congresswoman’s

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x6eK1 TIL that during the Edo period in Japan Catholicism was outlawed and groups of Japanese catholics had secret rooms in their houses and they made statues of the Virgin Mary and other saints that would look like Buddhist statues
4X4ga TIL in the early 1900s, women used hatpins to fend off sexual harassers in the streets. These pins were so effective in fending off assaulters that legislation was proposed to curb these “accessories to assault.” Men would often come away with wounds that were “not serious, but very painful.”
R59r8 TIL in 1975, there were 2 crude oil tanker spills on January 31st. The Corinthos Spill in the Delaware River and the Epic Colocotronis Spill in Puerto Rico dumped a combined 28.5 million gallons of oil into surrounding waters.
64KQ TIL That the X-rays from an atomic bomb are so powerful, they can compress lithium until it causes a fusion explosion… even without the shockwave. Its called a “Teller-Ulam” nuclear weapon, and it uses an atomic bomb as a “spark plug”.
60nl TIL that a small town in Kansas has one of the largest space museums in the world, including Liberty Bell 7, the Apollo 13 command module, the Gemini X spacecraft, Vostok and Voshkod spacecraft, an SR-71, Nazi V1 and V2 weapons, and several full-scale launch rockets