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21 May 1934. The town of Oskaloosa, Iowa began fingerprinting every resident. A local official explained: “We know these people, and eventually one of them is going to steal a chicken, rob a bank, or steal the mayor’s moonshine from behind his outhouse.”
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21 May 1934. The town of Oskaloosa, Iowa began fingerprinting every resident. A local official explained: “We know these people, and eventually one of them is going to steal a chicken, rob a bank, or steal the mayor’s moonshine from behind his outhouse.”

u/Upstairs_Drive_5602 — 1 day ago
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20 May 1910. At the funeral of Edward VII, the King’s beloved fox terrier Caesar was given pride of place in the procession, walking ahead of Europe’s kings and emperors.

u/Upstairs_Drive_5602 — 1 day ago
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19 May 1536. Anne Boleyn, the second wife of King Henry VIII, was executed at the Tower of London on likely fabricated charges of adultery, incest, and treason.

u/Upstairs_Drive_5602 — 3 days ago
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Naturally carved marble caverns in Chilean Patagonia.

u/Brent_Fox — 4 days ago
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18 May 1980. Mount St. Helens erupted with the force of 24 megatons of TNT, killing 57 people, flattening 230 square miles of forest, and sending ash across 11 US states. It remains the most destructive volcanic eruptions in American history.

u/Upstairs_Drive_5602 — 4 days ago
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The MAGIC telescope in the Canary Islands uses lasers to hunt gamma rays from space. Not sure if this massive structure counts as a building.

u/Upstairs_Drive_5602 — 2 days ago
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17 May 1814. Norway declared independence, signed its constitution, and elected a king, only to be forced into union with Sweden months later.

u/Upstairs_Drive_5602 — 5 days ago
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16 May 1929. The first Academy Awards were awarded. MGM’s Louis B. Mayer said: "I found that the best way to handle [filmmakers] was to hang medals all over them. That's why it was created".

u/Upstairs_Drive_5602 — 6 days ago
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TIL that the first Academy Awards in 1929 was just a 15-minute dinner with 270 guests and $5 tickets, with winners announced months earlier. MGM’s Louis B. Mayer said: "I found that the best way to handle [filmmakers] was to hang medals all over them. That's why it was created".

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u/Upstairs_Drive_5602 — 6 days ago
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16 May 1991. Queen Elizabeth II tells the US Congress “history cannot be unwritten” as she becomes the first British monarch to address the chamber.

u/Upstairs_Drive_5602 — 6 days ago
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15 May 1252. Pope Innocent IV permits the torture of heretics to force confessions, but insists it must stop short of death or mutilation.

u/Upstairs_Drive_5602 — 7 days ago
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TIL that in 2001, a freight train loaded with toxic molten phenol was accidentally set to full power and ran unmanned through Ohio for nearly two hours. Attempts to derail it failed, police tried shooting it to stop it, and unbelievably, the locomotive is still in service today.

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u/Upstairs_Drive_5602 — 7 days ago