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TIL of the Goa Inquisition in Portuguese India which enforced Catholic Orthodoxy from 1561 to 1812. Primary targets were Hindus who were forced to convert under imprisonment and starvation. All records were destroyed by the Portuguese in 1812 and exact number of casualties still remain unknown today

by whatilearned June 1, 2022, 10:09 am

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TIL the penalty for government property damage as amended on September 13, 1994, if the damage exceeds $100, the defendant is subject to a fine of up to $250,000, ten years imprisonment, or both.

by whatilearned May 11, 2022, 1:14 am

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TIL, you cant cut cactus in Arizona or jump over them, it could lead to imprisonment for 25 years.

by whatilearned April 21, 2022, 12:13 pm

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TIL Canada has only sentenced one person, Stanko Joseph Grmovsek, to prison for insider trading. He was the first and only person in Canadian history to serve a Federal sentence of imprisonment for insider trading. He was sentenced to 39 months in prison.

by whatilearned March 2, 2022, 1:59 am

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TIL that Martin Luther King’s mother was also assassinated. A man who believed Christianity was harming African Americans gunned her down as she played the organ in church. He was sentenced to death but this was commuted to life imprisonment because the Kings opposed capital punishment.

by whatilearned February 17, 2022, 10:36 pm

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TIL Uday Hussein, son of Saddam Hussein, was named Chairmain of the Iraqi Olympic Committee in 1984. Athletes who disappointed him were subject to torture and imprisonment

by whatilearned January 16, 2022, 6:51 am

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TIL the US and the British Empire almost went to war in 1859 over the death of a pig. The pig’s owner demanded a 100$ payment (3332.40$ today) and the result was almost the imprisonment of a US citizen that led to the escalation.

by whatilearned December 8, 2021, 2:05 am

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TIL from a 1848 law, it’s a felony in the UK to “imagine deposing the Queen” punishable by lifetime imprisonment.

by whatilearned November 21, 2021, 9:04 pm

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TIL that female journalist Gao Yu was imprisoned for 5 years by the Communist Party of China for leaking “Document No. 9” which bans university professors from teaching democratic ideals such as Basic Human Rights. Failure to comply results in suppression, blacklisting, and imprisonment.

by whatilearned August 28, 2021, 6:26 am

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TIL during her imprisonment for insider trading, it was reported that Martha Stewart picked crabapples from the prison yard in order to whip up a batch of crabapple jam

by whatilearned August 10, 2021, 3:03 am

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TIL Michael Godwin, convicted murderer, was initially given a death sentence by electrocution before being reduced to life imprisonment. Godwin died from electrocution when he bit into wires while attempting to fix a broken television set at the same time sitting on a metal toilet in his prison cell

by whatilearned July 31, 2021, 10:36 am

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TIL about the Loyal Wives of Weinsberg. During siege of the castle, women negotiated a peace in which they were allowed to leave with whatever they could carry on their shoulders – having chosen their husbands they all left unharmed, saving men from imprisonment.

by whatilearned July 21, 2021, 10:32 am

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