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TIL It used to be illegal for men to be topless and show their nipples until a judge overturned New York state's male shirtless bans in 1937 following men protesting for their rights to not sexualize their bare chest

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E1wlV TIL a newspaper in Nuremberg in 1561 described an April 14 one-hour-long dawn battle between red and black balls and rods and crosses in the sky.
a0GJ TIL Mohammed al Qahtani (20th hijacker of the 9/11 attacks) was interrogated at Guantanamo Bay by dripping water, physical torture, prolonged strip searches, and invasion of space by a female, none of which worked; it was continuously hearing Christina Aguilera’s “Dirrty” that finally broke him.
dXaZ TIL the USSR put a rover on the moon in 1970, and was missing from 1971-2010
R7MR4 TIL of a insurance dispute following the 9/11 attacks of whether or not the attacks constituted 1 or 2 events under the policy terms
R7ZLQ TIL that we measure angles out of 360 degrees because the Sumerians divided the circular path of the sun in the sky into 360 degrees to track the sun's daily position, it took about 360 days for the sun to complete a full circuit across the sky. This all happened approximately 2400 BC.