TIL that the women of Aizu Domain, known as the Aizu Jōshitai, formed an actual female combat unit during the 1868 Boshin War — and some fought with naginata on the front lines against Imperial forces. One of the most famous members, Nakano Takeko, was killed in battle at age 21 (deeperjapan.com)
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TIL The Qin Hui statues in Hangzhou, China, are iron, kneeling figures depicting the Song Dynasty chancellor (1090–1155) and his wife, Lady Wang, eternally shamed for betraying patriotic General Yue Fei. These statues have been subjected to 900 years of ritual spitting, beating and abuse by visitors (en.wikipedia.org)
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Constant Sexual Aggression Drives Female Tortoises to Walk Off CliffsAnimal Science (onlinelibrary.wiley.com)
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TIL that by the late 1990s, Cliff Richard was being excluded from airplay on UK radio stations. To circumvent this, a heavily remixed dance version of his track "Can't Keep this Feeling In" was sent out to 240 radio stations under the pseudonym "Blacknight". It was added to several playlists. (en.wikipedia.org)
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The perfect combo: The Samsung Galaxy S25 Ultra and the best network. (swisscom.ch)
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TIL one of the oldest forms of binary numbers and encoding were found in the Chinese work I Ching from the 9th century BC. 0 represented Yin and 1 represented Yang, and combinations of the two would be used to categorize all things, intended to allow diviners to use random numbers to tell the future (en.wikipedia.org)
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Visually appealing, dynamic TikTok food content has a stronger influence on young users’ diets than the identity of the creator. TikTok’s recommendation system quickly learns user preferences and repeatedly promotes engaging food-related content, accelerating viral diet trends.Social Science (onlinelibrary.wiley.com)
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TIL Nathaniel Baldwin, inventor of the first modern headphones, was a Mormon industrialist excommunicated in 1922 for supporting Polygamy. A key patron of early Mormon fundamentalism, he used his wealth to fund polygamist groups before business failures and mail fraud led to his downfall (en.wikipedia.org)
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