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"Today I Learned", often shortened as TIL, is an online expression typically used in the title of a post or thread when introducing an interesting fact or trivia that had been previously unknown to the poster, in a similar way to the phrase "did you know?".

Bored Panda already introduced you to the concept when we covered the "Today I Learned" subreddit with nearly 24 million members. But TIL posts are all over the Internet not just Reddit, so why stop there? This time, we put together a list of some of the best "Today I Learned" trivia gems we could find online, so get your notebooks out and enjoy.

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TIL that in 1920, the town of Jackson, Wyoming elected an all-female town council by a margin of 2-1 over the men, drawing the most voters the town had ever seen. Known as the "pettycoat rulers," the women served for 3 years and did a great deal to clean up the notoriously lawless town.

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TIL there’s a cemetery in the Netherlands consisting of 8,300 US veterans who died in WWII. For the past 70 years, Dutch families have come to the cemetery every Sunday to care for a grave they adopted. Hundreds of people are currently on a waiting list to become caretakers.

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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

We are still grateful to those that gave all so we could be free.

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TIL that in during WW2, an American bomber -*ye olde pub*- was nearly shot down. A German fighter gave chase and once in range, he noticed the dead and injured crew and the terror in the pilots face. He didn’t attack and escorted the plane. Both pilots survived the war and finally met in 1990

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Anton Kider
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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Franz Stigler and Charlie Brown. They became good friends and passed away months apart in 2008.

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TIL Prairie dog language is complex. They don’t just have a call for “danger”: their calls differentiate human, hawk, domesticated dog, coyote etc. and specify size & color. One study found that they can communicate “Here comes the short human in the yellow” (vs the tall human in blue) to each other

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TIL that Bill Murray once drove a taxi cab so that the cab driver could spend time playing saxophone in the backseat. The cab driver mentioned that he never had time to play his sax since he had to work 14 hours a day. Murray took the driver’s seat so that he could finally play some tunes.

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TIL of Ken Allen, a Borneo orangutan in the San Diego Zoo who escaped his enclosure three times. He never acted aggressively towards anyone during his escapes, and generally wandered around the zoo looking at other animals.

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Joonscrab
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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

It hurts my heart to see so many animals just confined to a small patch of land for the entirety of their lives. Zoos deserve to be banned.

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Olof T
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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Maybe squirrels are forgetful as survival strategy. They forget enough nuts to plant more trees which gives them... more nuts. If they where to efficient at gathering nuts they might wipe out the trees and thus themselves.

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TIL the founder of Hyundai was born to an impoverished family of peasants in what is now North Korea. In 1998, he sent 1001 cows to his hometown in North Korea as a repayment 1000 times over for a cow that he stole in the early 1930s to afford his train ticket to Seoul and escape from poverty.

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TIL That Aki Ra, a former Khmer Rouge child soldier has personally found and/or destroyed over 50,000 land mines. He now trains bomb experts, curates a mine museum, and advocates for demining and the victims of mines.

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TIL in the 1790s, an Oxford student introduced using guano (bird poop) as fertiliser. He spread guano across the university lawn, using it to spell G U A N O. The lawn was soon scrubbed, but when spring came, the word GUANO was clearly visible, growing higher and thicker than the rest of the grass

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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I thought it was always weird to have a paper airplane for sent since those things never end up where you throw them

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TIL that elephants are tremendous distance swimmers. They can swim for up to six hours and 25 miles (48km). They are so buoyant that if they tire in the water, they can just rest by floating and will not sink. They can also use their trunk as a snorkel and dive.

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TIL in 1980 the FBI formed a fake company and attempted to bribe members of congress. Nearly 25% of those tested accepted the bribe, and were convicted.

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TIL scientists used 2,000 year old seeds to regrow an extinct species of date tree. The tree long disappeared from the Judean desert but archeologists found seeds on digs. Surprisingly, the seeds worked and grew a male and female of the species. They hope to use them to produce biblical era dates.

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TIL that in the Falklands, an abandoned minefield has accidentally become a penguin sanctuary. The mines were set in the Falklands conflict and have remained there since, keeping humans away. The local Magellanic penguins are too small to set them off and have thrived in the area.

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TIL The holes in honeycombs don't actually start out as hexagons. Bees create circular tubes staggered with one another. The heat formed by the activity of the bees softens the wax, which connects the gaps between the holes. Then the wax hardens into the the most energy efficient shape, the hexagon.

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TIL that when Eli Wallach, who played "The Ugly" in "The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly," arrived in Madrid to shoot the movie, all hotels were full. He ended up having to sleep in the same bed as Clint Eastwood and later often bragged that he was the only man who ever slept with Clint Eastwood.

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TIL Not only do bats make high-pitched sounds for echolocation, many bat species also sing. A team of scientists that analyzed one species’ song translated it as a sequence that opens with a hello, then a gender identification, then some geographic information, & then a "let's talk" section.

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TIL that the founder of Old Bay seafood seasoning founded his own company after being fired by McCormick after two days on the job after they found out he was Jewish

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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

There are a lot of things in Sponge Bob Square pants like this because Stephen Hillenburg creator of Sponge Bod was a Marine Biologist.

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TIL that Alan Alda met his wife of over 60 years at a dinner party when they were the only two guests who ate the rum cake after it fell on the kitchen floor.

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Dave P
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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Always nice to hear about celebs in long term happy marriages, in fact good to hear about anyone who can be married that long happily.

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TIL Harry Houdini wanted to prevent people from copying his "Chinese water torture cell" trick, but didn't want to patent it, as that would require explaining how it works. So he gave a performance of the trick as a one-act play before an audience of one, and then filed for a copyright on the play

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TIL The formal clothing of the Roman Citizen was the Toga. During Roman elections, those running for political office would rub their Toga with a dazzling white chalk to stand out. Called Toga Candida (pure-white) this clothing was the origin of the word "candidate".

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TIL Chris Evans turned down the Captain America role multiple times because of Anxiety, fear of a 10-movie commitment and the public spotlight. He went to therapy before taking the role

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TIL: 44% of adults have held on to their childhood teddies and dolls, and as many as 34% of adults still sleep with a soft toy every night

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Bama Belle
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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Saw a couple on Oprah once. The husband was irritated that his wife slept with her old teddy bear, claimed she should be cuddling HIM and that it interfered with their sexy time. Surprisingly, Oprah and Dr. Phil agreed with the husband that it was weird and she should stop. I thought it was weird her husband was jealous of a toy.

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Claudia Stieble
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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

yep, my elephant is now 53 years old and does not look too bad for his age.

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Patricia Rix
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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I always feel so bad for the teddy bears I see in Thrift stores, many of them like new, meaning they were never barfed on, cried on, washed, dried, in other words, never loved. And then abandoned.

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Nadine Bamberger
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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I gave my now 42 yo Bruno Bear to my niece and it makes me irrationally happy to know that she cuddles him every day.

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Risky
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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I still have my Snoopy from 42 years ago. He sits on my bed and makes me happy.

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Marija Barcan
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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I used to until I lost her two years ago. She travelled all over the world with me and never got lost and I had her for 35 years. I miss my bunny every day. She just vanished:(

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glowworm2
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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I am a 32 year old woman with tons of plushies in my bed--most are from my boyfriend.

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Katie Lutesinger
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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I still have my cherished childhood rag doll. She lives on my bedside table because she's too fragile for cuddles. Instead, I sleep with a stuffed bunny I hand-sewed. If I'm away from home, I tend to hug the bedclothes while I sleep. It just seems to be one of those things.

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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I still sleep with a little pink kitty blanket with a plush cat head. I treasure her.

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Johnny
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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I sleep with a stuffed animal dog toy most nights, but that's the dog's choice, not mine. He leaves his toy next to me.

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Zulma Ruiz
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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I had 2 quite big teddy bears until I was 34, when I moved to another country, I abandoned them, I had a lot of love for them, and a baby doll that t Somebody gave me at 8 years old, and I was embarrassed by my family for still keeping it , I gave it to my niece who loved it for years envying it because I did not lend it to her, for me it was not a toy, in less than a few months she ruined it, broken and drawn with markers

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Francis
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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

jep! i do! my boyfriend hates it, but i just can't sleep without it

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Isabella
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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

35, married for 10, my husband is 4 years older. We collect plushies and yes, we have favs we sleep with :P

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Cassie
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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I had kept my stuffed tigers from childhood until they suffered damage in a move. I sleep with both my husband and a stuffed animal he gave me early in our marriage. I have found that it reduces shoulder pain by reducing the pull on my arm a bit when I sleep on my side.

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Mimi777
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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I still have my baby blanket but it just sat in a box in my closet for a long time. My boyfriend still has his favorite stuffed dog that he’s now given to our child (he just found it a couple weeks ago while going through old boxes.) Our 2 year old has a favorite blanket that she’s obsessed with. It’s cute.

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Dee Stern
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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Seventy-six years and counting with my stuffed panda, Andy. My family has been instructed that when the day comes, he goes with me.

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elfin
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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

My soft toys have fangs. And go "Meow," more or less.

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Wes Wade
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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Can confirm. I've got Stubby, my orca stuffie I've had since I was four, in a death grip every night.

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Yeshaya D
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I'm 16 and I still sleep with the same teddy bear from when I was a baby.

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Sage Gusano
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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I wish I still had my original Teddy Bear to pass down. His name was Teddy...Don't knock it; he saved me from many a closet monster!

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Dorothy Cloud
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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I don't know if I'd admit I still had/or slept with one of my old toys.

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Stephanie de Blaauw
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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I've got two drawers full still at my dad's house. Gonna be working on dividing into keep and give piles, to donate to children. The not beinggood at tossing things is something else I inherited from my dad :p

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Sam Cook
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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I usually sleep imagining I'm holding my sister's puppy or any of my nieces and nephews so that I always feel warm and cozy with someone I love.

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23AClark
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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I'm not ashamed to say that I am one of them! In both categories!!! 😁

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AzKhaleesi
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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I still have my cabbage patch kid. Weird story.... His original name was Waylon and I hated it so I changed his name to like scott or something. YEARS later my Dad got re married and decided to have 3 more kids. My youngest brothers name? Waylon lol. So now he's back. But I don't sleep with him cuz he's old and naked, I lost his Navy suit a long time ago. hmm come to think of it my dad was in the Navy....weird. (grandma had bought him for me) BUT I DO sleep with the cutest little moose that I named Knuckle (yes pun intended) that hubby got me during a horrific back surgery I had last year during the holidays.

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Marnie
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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

It's a substitute for sleeping with the baby, which is what most parents did much of their adult life for 200,000 years.

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Polargiraffe
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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

This makes me feel less of a weirdo now! My bear sleeps next to me every night.

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AshFox
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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Having something to hug and focus on has always greatly helped my sleep paralysis episodes.

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Roadkill The Brave
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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I still have mine but I don't sleep with them, I never really slept when them as a kid. I tried but I'd wake up and they'd all be ninjitsued all over my room. As a kid I was so concerned about their 'saftey' that I moved them off the bed at night. Now they're in my closet but still loved.

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Paula Carr
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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I still have the plush pink elephant my aunt gave me when I was four (65 years ago!), but I don't sleep with it. I sleep with a (live) dog, and she'd chew it up if it was in the bed.

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Denny Cwiek
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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

My ex and I used to poise our girl's stuffed animals and dolls in pornographic positions on our bed when the girls were out. We took turns to see who could surprise and shock the other the most.

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Dorrie Kimkaran
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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I've had Gloria, a stuffed rabbit that I got for Easter when I was 3 years old. That would be 64 years since I just turned 67. She was named "Gloria" after Gloria Swanson-because the rabbit had beautiful felt eyelashes!! They are all rubbed off, now....but I still have her in storage :-).

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Lilla Bence
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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Instead of a stuffed one, I now sleep with a real animal - our little westie dog, and it's the most comforting thing ever.

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James F. Wilson Jr.
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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Ah Ha, So thats why my uncle sleeps with that large rubber doll at night.

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Fixin'Ta
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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I still have the teddy bear I got on my first birthday over 50 years ago. But I can't sleep with her as all her foam-rubber innards are petrified and she's not very soft anymore. And she's also very delicate now, so I just keep her in a safe place. (Fun fact -- my childhood teddy and my husband's childhood teddy got married on the same day we did. A friend made wedding clothes for them and dressed them up for the reception, and we just declared them married. We still have them both.)

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Bob Belcher
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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Cough* no comment. My brother ripped the leg off of mine when I was a toddler. Now his back story is he lost his leg in the war. No one knows what war, just the war.

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TIL wild orangutans use medicinal plants to sooth joint and muscle inflammation. The apes chew leaves of the Dracaena cantleyi plant to create a white lather, which they then rub onto their bodies. Local indigenous people also use the plant for the same purpose.

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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Please don't use anything containing palm oil, plantations are the main reason for the extinction of these amazing creatures.

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TIL the red stuff dropped from airplanes to put out forest fires also acts as a fertilizer.

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3 years ago (edited) DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

A guy on a fire crew left his truck up on the bush during the fight during fire season in British Columbia (early 90's when I heard since my Father was on one of the crews) Buddy was new and didn't know about the retardant and what was in it or cared. The others on the crew told him to move his truck before the bomber came by with a sweep in the areathey were in. He ignored them and continued on his way. The other firefighters shrugged and went back to the line. The bomber flew over right where he left his truck. It dropped its cargo. The guys truck and interior was a fresh new red color that couldn't come out of the original white upholstery.

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TIL of Miguel Wattson, an electric eel from Tennessee with its own Twitter account. Whenever he discharges a large enough jolt, a tweet will be automatically send out to his account EelectricMiguel. Apart from sending tweets, he also helps power up Christmas trees at the aquarium.

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TIL in 1506, a 1000+ year old statue was unearthed. The main figure, Laocoön, was missing an arm. The pope commissioned a contest to find who would recreate the missing arm best. Michelangelo's version lost. In 1906 the original arm was found and in nearly the exact pose Michelangelo had sculpted.

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Beatrice Multhaupt
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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

It has been suggested that Michelangelo earned a living as an art forger before he became famous (Laocoön was found in the back yard of the art dealer who declared it an authentic antique). This would indeed explain how M. knew exactly where to position the arm.

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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

What a way to convert a horrible view into something that draws people into the cafe instead of just putting a solid wall to hide it! It's not stupid if it works!

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TIL in 2007, 33-year-old Steve Way weighed over 100kg, smoked 20 cigarettes a day & ate junk food regularly. In order to overcome lifestyle-related health issues, he started taking running seriously. In 2008, he ran the London Marathon in under 3 hours and, in 2014, he set the British 100 km record

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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Some sharks bear live young. And in some of those species, the sharklets battle each other for survival, loser gets eaten--before they're even born!

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TIL - A man suffering from gastrointestinal distress in a Kansas Home Depot mens room provided a friendly warning to other bathroom goers by saying: “You need to get out of here because I’m fixin’ to blow it up.” Police were called on suspicion of a bomb threat. No charges were laid.

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TIL The Tollund Man, who lived during the 4th Century BC, was so well preserved on discovery that that he was mistaken for a recent murder victim. His internal organs were intact; it was concluded that his last meal was porridge consisting of 40 kinds of seeds, eaten 12 to 24 hours before his death.

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Monika Soffronow
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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Fifteen states have a population of less than two million, of these there are seven states with less than one million people. The smallest is Wyoming with about 580,000 residents. Each state is represented by two senators in the Senate. This means that one senator from Wyoming represents 290.000 people and that one senator from California represents almost 19 million people. Do you see anything wrong with this picture? If the scales were tilted the other way around, (19.000.000X1,53%=290.700) this would give us 290.000X1.53%=4.437 which is about the population of the small town of Portola Valley in California.

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TIL that when future US President Lyndon B. Johnson was Senate majority leader, he instructed his staff to make his scotch and soda significantly weaker than his guest’s, so that he could keep a clearer head

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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Also the reason for Bonds martini to be shaken not stirred, more shaking causes ice to melt watering down the drink.

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TIL a British nurse named Edith Cavell helped treat soldiers regardless of their nationalities in WWI. She also helped them escape from German occupied Belgium. When caught, she refused to lie about her actions and was executed by firing squad.

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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

When I was snorkeling one time I was told that touching a sea turtles shell will leave oil prints on it and other turtles see that and disown the turtle and it is left to fend for itself. Not sure if true or not but it definitely made me not touch any

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TIL three 13 year old girls submitted a script for "Tiny Toon Adventures". Producer Steven Spielberg was so impressed that he invited the girls to Hollywood to work on the episode and paid them $3,000. This later inspired a Simpsons episode where Bart and Lisa write an Itchy & Scratchy cartoon.

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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Wonderful to see that he respected their skills first, and paid them accordingly. Too many adults would've dismissed them based on their age, and claimed their work as "inspiration" rather than pay them. Bravo!!

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TIL Windsocks are calibrated to visually show wind speed as well as wind direction. They are designed such that each inflated red/white stripe indicates a 3 knot increase in wind speed to a maximum of 15 knots.

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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

If the wind is blowing more than 15 knots, you probably have no business trying to land at that airfield.

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TIL about Richard Rowland Kirkland, a Confederate soldier who risked his life to tend to wounded soldiers from both sides of the Civil War in the middle of battle at Fredericksburg. Both sides held their fire as they watched him help every wounded soldier regardless of allegiance.

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#47

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TIL at G.E. in the 1920s, as a joke, newly hired engineers would be told to develop an inside frosted lightbulb, which was believed to be impossible. In 1925, newly hired Marvin Pipkin got the assignment, and astonished his peers by succeeding.

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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

And that, dear kids, is how the greatest inventions come to the daily light. Someone says it´s impossible to achieve this and this and someone else does their best to prove them wrong.

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TIL that since 2014, Paul Rudd and Jeffrey Dean Morgan have been co-owners of Samuel's Sweet Shop, a candy store in the town of Rhinebeck, New York. They saved it from being closed after the previous owner, a friend of theirs, died suddenly.

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Ty Stratton-Quirk
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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Paul Rudd: plays the Marvel character Scott Lang, who works alongside Sam Wilson. Jeffrey Dean Morgan: Plays recurring Supernatural character John Winchester, who has a son named Sam Winchester. Coincidence? Yeah, probably.

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TIL the prevailing theory behind why humans like music is that we learn patterns and regularities within music, and we unconsciously predict what will come next. When we are right, our brain gives us a dopamine rush. Thus the constant dance between expectation and outcome is pleasurable to us

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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Absolutely. Even when you've heard it a million times, you get a rush when you think, "Here comes the good part!"

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TIL the only U.S. Secret Service officer killed protecting a president is Leslie Coffelt. Shot three times in the abdomen, he fired one round and hit Truman's attempted assassin in the back of the head from 31 feet away with his revolver.

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WilvanderHeijden
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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Today the bodyguards would yell "Donald duck!" and he wouldn't, because no one tells Donald what to do.

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TIL instead of “They lived happily ever after”, German fairytales end with “if they haven’t died, then they are still living today.”

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#52

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TIL Japan's reputation for longevity among its citizens is a point of controversy: In 2010, one man, believed to be 111, was found to have died some 30 years before; his body was discovered mummified in his bed. Investigators found at least 234,354 other Japanese centenarians were "missing."

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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

It's sad how nobody, no relatives, no friends, no institutions... looks for those old people in a part of modern world

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TIL Pumpkins evolved to be eaten by wooly mammoths and giant sloths. Pumpkins would likely be extinct today if ancient humans hadn't conserved them.

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#54

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TIL that basketball Hall of Famer George Raveling volunteered as security during MLK's famous "I Have a Dream" speech. Immediately after the speech he asked MLK for the original typewritten manuscript, which he gave him. He still has it and has refused offers of more than $3,000,000 for it.

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TIL there is a species of sheep that survives completely on seaweed. on the island of north ronaldsay in scotland, a wall was built around the island to protect crops from sheep grazing, limiting them to the shoreline where they have adapted to survive.

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Olivia Agave
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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Thing is, the wall is now protecting the sheep - they have become so adapted to eating the seaweed that eating the grass and crops could make them very sick and could possibly kill them. At least this was on a documentary I saw.

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TIL To promote the Smurfs (2011) movie, Sony temporarily painted the traditional "pueblo blanco" town of Juzcar, Spain to a bright blue. The residents were so happy with the increase in tourism afterwards that they elected to keep the change permanently.

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#57

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TIL that Japanese pro wrestler Rikidōzan often went to the bar immediately after his matches, without treating his wounds first. When patrons asked him why his face was bloodied, he'd reply "I had a tough day at work."

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#58

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TIL that astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson received large amounts of hate mail from children after declassifying Pluto as a planet.

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TIL the secret formula for WD-40 is stored in a bank vault and has only left it twice; once was on its 50th birthday when the CEO of WD-40 rode through Times Square on a horse with a suit of armor on and the formula in hand

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TIL after a Polish Admiral of German descent Józef Unrug was taken prisoner during WW2, his former Imperial German Navy friends came to visit him. Unrug refused to speak German with them, saying that he had forgotten that language in September 1939 the day Germany invaded Poland

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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Take a moment to look up the actions of the Free Polish Navy during WWII, they were an impressively fearless bunch. That's the sort of thing that happens when you have little left to lose.

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TIL leaving cookies and milk for Santa started to become popular in the U.S during the Great Depression. Parents wanted to teach their kids it was better to give and to be grateful for presents they received during times of economic hardship.

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Vincent Philippart
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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

In Belgium we leave some strong alcohol for Saint Nicolas, to brave the cold, and carrots for his donkey (he has a donkey rahter than reindeers). We mark the bottle to see how much he drinks.

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TIL some Buddhist monks attempt to mummify themselves alive—and at least two dozen have succeeded. The process involves eating only pine needles, resins & seeds to eliminate all body fat, and then slowly reducing liquid intake to zero, thus dehydrating the body and shrinking all organs, until death.

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Olof T
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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Some people go to Uni and gets a career, some people mummify themselves. Humans are strange creatures.

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I was today years old when i realized that Little Caesars' toga has an L and C for Little Caesars

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TIL that the voice of Tigger from Winnie the Pooh, Paul Winchell was one of the original inventors of an artificial heart, an automobile that runs on battery power, a method for breeding tilapia, and many other inventions that are still around today.

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3 years ago (edited) DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Loved watching his TV show. Great ventriloquist.Shown above with Jerry Mahoney.

#65

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TIL that Ronald Reagan won 49 states and 525 electoral votes in the 1984 presidential election which is the most in history.

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TIL Bogs are Ireland’s original refrigerators. And they are pretty good—even 3,000-year-old bog butter is edible. We know this because archeologists tended to eat it. The secret is the anaerobic nature of the bog. Without oxygen, neither the butter nor its wooden container decomposes.

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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Bog is slang for toilet in Australia, so you can do imagine what went through my mind. It wasn’t pretty.

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TIL clue used to be spelled "clew". This was due to clew meaning "a ball of twine" which was symbolic of following the string through a maze and helping find "the way" or "an answer".

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Anna Snorrepot
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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

How interesting! in Dutch we have "kluwen" which means tangle (of thread). Same pronunciation as "clew"

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TIL Audie Murphy, the most decorated American soldier of World War II, suffered from battle fatigue for the rest of his life. He endured chronic insomnia and recurring nightmares, and kept a loaded pistol under his pillow. He eventually took to sleeping alone in his garage with the lights on.

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BorPand8
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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

We call it PTSD today. Look up George Carlin's rant on euphemisms if you haven't already heard it -- it's great.

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Nadine Bamberger
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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

More actors should refuse to do these insane workout/diet/dehydration routines, it's harmful to the actor's body.

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TIL that in the late 90s with millions in the bank, David Lee Roth became a state-licensed EMT who went on hundreds of calls

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TIL research shows that mirrors in public places like retails stores will improve customer behavior by increasing self awareness. You won't act like a jerk if you had to watch yourself doing so.

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TIL in 1900, a sealed cave was discovered in China's Gansu province containing 1,100 scrolls and 15,000 Buddhist texts. Believed to have been sealed around 1002, the last recorded date, the cave contained lost texts and the earliest dated printed book, a copy of the Diamond Sutra printed in 868.

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TIL The first Native American who met the Pilgrims at Plymouth Colony walked into their encampment and greeted them in English. Which he had begun to learn from fishermen frequenting the waters of Maine. Supposedly, he greeted them then asked if they had beer.

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Joyce Melton
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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

They didn't have beer. It was on the other boat, the Supply, which didn't get lost in Massachsetts, but went on down to Jamestown, VA, where my ancestor got off and started a farm.

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TIL Mel Gibson could not get any studio to fund 'Passion of the Christ'. Instead of scrapping the film, he chose to finance it all by himself, an action which analysts labelled as "idiotic". He spent $45M on the project and went on to make over $475M because he didn't have to split the profits.

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WilvanderHeijden
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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

There was a reason why no one wanted to fund the film. It is racist and anti-Semitic.

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TIL almost all shells open on the right-hand side, with the exception of a few snail species whose shells open on the left. If you find a shell that opens on the left (as long as it's from a normally right-hand species), you have a rare shell sometimes highly sought by collectors.

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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Also, make sure the shell isn't occupied before collecting it. Thank you. - Snail

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TIL when the Union abandoned a fort in Florida, they left behind a single soldier as caretaker. When the Confederacy marched on the fort, the lone soldier refused to surrender without a receipt for the fort. He received one, and the fort was taken without a shot fired.

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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

wow, i wonder what it would be like to be a lone soldier, all alone in a massive fort

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TIL On a visit to Constantinople Samuel Colt gave a custom gold inlaid revolver to the Sultan of the Ottoman Empire and informed him that the Russians were buying his pistols. The Turkish ordered 5,000 pistols. Colt neglected to tell the Sultan that he had used the same tactic with the Russians.

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TIL on Disneyland's opening day in 1955, an invitation-only crowd of 15,000 was expected, but thanks to counterfeit tickets, 28,154 entered the gates. A few more even scaled a fence, using a ladder erected by an entrepreneur who charged $5 a head. On the Santa Ana Freeway, there was a 7-mile backup

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Joyce Melton
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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Until 2001, there was a little known service gate at the back of the park which was seldom locked and almost never guarded. Locals in the know simply walked in, made their way through the backstage area, and emerged in Fantasyland.

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TIL octopuses have 2/3 of their neurons in their arms. When in captivity they regularly occupy their time with covert raids on other tanks, squirting water at people they don't like, shorting out bothersome lights, and escaping.

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Samantha Lomb
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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Awesome but the picture is a cuttlefish. While also a cephalopod it's definitely not an octopus.

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TIL Jackie Chan sang "I'll Make a Man Out of You" for the Mandarin AND Cantonese versions of Mulan (1998)

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TIL there is a Star Wars fan edit that exists- The Phantom Edit, which was intended to improve on Episode I- The Phantom Menace. Changes included the removal of "Jar Jar Antics," trimming politics scenes, removing dialogue related to midi-chlorians, and removing "yippee," from Anakin's dialogue.

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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

With all those changes the runtime would probably not longer than eight minutes.

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TIL that the AT&T stadium in Arlington, Texas changes the gender signs on bathrooms based on the gender makeup of a crowd. This allows them to provide more female or male bathrooms depending on the event. It also prevents long lines for bathrooms.

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TIL about "Homegrown National Park," an effort to encourage Americans to plant as many native plants as possible everywhere on their property to help bring back the continent's biodiversity

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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I participate in this. In some cases, "invasives" are so well established that we give them a pass, as "nativized", but please, think about the native plants when looking at your flowerbeds, etc. :-)

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TIL that on the night that MTV launched, the opening sequence for the network featured footage of the Apollo 11 launch, simply because it was public domain and free to use. It was that opening sequence that connected MTVs image with astronauts, including the Video Music Award “moon man” trophy.

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TIL Clara Blandick, known for her role as Auntie Em in The Wizard of Oz, committed suicide in 1962 following a period of poor health. Before dying, she arranged her room with photos, memorabilia and press clippings from her career, and dressed in a royal blue dressing gown with her hair styled.

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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

this has the same energy as the realization that gru's first name is felonius and he is canonically fourteen feet tall

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TIL the 7-minute long shot in the Charlie Work episode of "It's Always Sunny In Philadelphia" was entirely filmed by camera operator Adam Sklena, without dolly tracks or a rig. "This is a man holding a camera who had to walk backwards—and we got it without screwing up on take 1," said Charlie Day.

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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

We just watched this episode and that's impressive. I mean, you could tell it was a single shot- but holy wow for it all being done without any real stability structure for the camera. Wow.

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TIL President Andrew Jackson was gifted a 1,400-pound block of cheese by a New York dairy farmer. The cheese remained on display at the White House for over a year but was entirely eaten by a large crowd during Jackson's final party as President.

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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

The same farmer also sent 750lb wheels of cheese to Vise President Van Buren and New York Governor William L. Marcy.

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TIL that the speed of light was first estimated in 1676 by a Danish Astronomer who was timing the eclipses of Io caused by Jupiter. He noticed the period between eclipses increased with Earth's distance from Jupiter and guessed it was because light had to travel a longer distance.

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TIL in 1817 a woman posed as the fictional Princess Caraboo of Javasu. She fooled a small British town for months into believing she was a princess who had been captured by pirates, jumped overboard in the British Channel and swam ashore. She was later recognised as a cobbler's daughter from Devon.

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WilvanderHeijden
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3 years ago (edited) DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

In 2016 a man posed as a problem solving president. He fooled half of the biggest country in the world into believing he would be good for them. He was later recognised as a failed reality tv show host.

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TIL when Buzz Aldrin, second man on the moon, guest starred in The Simpsons, writers were concerned he would be offended by his line, "second comes after first," and offered an alternative- "first to take a soil sample." However, Aldrin preferred the original line, and it remained in the script.

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WilvanderHeijden
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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Not all men are whiny cry-babies when they are facing facts.

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TIL: The Diderot Effect is obtaining a new possession which often creates a spiral of consumption which leads you to acquire more new things. As a result, we end up buying things that our previous selves never needed to feel happy or fulfilled

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TIL that the filmmakers for ‘The Blair Witch Project’ saved money by returning the video camera to Circuit City after they were done filming

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JessG
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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Lol! This was one of the cheapest film made, scared the crap out of me when it was in theaters, I was one of the gullible that thought it was real

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TIL that llamas that spend too much time around humans are prone to BERSERK LLAMA SYNDROME. Such llamas believe that humans are fellow llamas, and sneak up behind them to attack.

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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

It's almost only male llamas. Since they see themselves as human, they attempt to drive off the 'other male llamas' in order to secure breeding rights, as they would naturally. Another male llama could defend itself, but berserk llamas are capable of inflicting severe damage to a human.

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M O'Connell
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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I doubt she wants to be known as "Matthey McConaughey's Prom Date" What's her name?

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TIL that it took 32 years to officially clear the parents in the famous “dingo took my baby case”. The mother spent three years in jail until evidence supporting their defense was found by chance. They ultimately received $1.3M for wrongful imprisonment, less than 1/3 of their legal fees.

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Anouk
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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

it's staggering to think that in cases of wrongful arrest, any compensation paid isn't ON TOP of repaying any legal fees. How the hell can someone end up out of pocket AND having lost years of their lives in prison, for wrongful arrest?

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TIL in 2006 VH1 ran a fundraiser for Hurricane Katerina where viewers who made donations were able to choose which music videos the station would play. One viewer donated $35,000 and requested continuous play of "99 Luftballons" and "99 Red Ballons" for an hour.

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WilvanderHeijden
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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Which was a jerk move, because he knew that people would switch channels after the third time of 99 red balloons.

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TIL during the US prohibition era, medicinal liquor was fraudulently exploited in many scams, one doctor cited for writing 475 prescriptions for whiskey in one day. Charles R. Walgreen, the founder of Walgreen's pharmacies expanded from 20 stores to a staggering 525 during the 1920s.

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WilvanderHeijden
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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Unsurprisingly criminals made millions out of dealing in alcohol and the US lost millions on enforcing the prohibition. When the government finally legalized the selling of alcohol that stopped. Seems that there's some lesson to be learned...

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TIL director/producer Greg Garcia (My Name Is Earl) worked at Burger King to collect funny stories during a writer's strike. He was given 1 of 12 known special Burger King Crown Cards that give people like Robert Downey Jr, Hugh Laurie, Jennifer Hudson. and Jay Leno unlimited free food for life.

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TIL Charlie Day was offered a part on the network show "Life on a Stick." At the same time, his friends began filming their own show with no money. Day turned down “Life on a Stick,” which lasted one season, while "It's Always Sunny In Philadelphia" became one of the longest running comedies ever.

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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

That can easily happen when you don't have material interest as first and you just follow your heart

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TIL that Coca-Cola makes most of its money from selling syrup to companies that manufacture and distribute their drinks and, as a result, it has a group dedicated to sending resources and experts to help any that are in financial trouble. This helps avoid image and logistical problems for the brand.

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causes more deaths every year than cancer cant believe people drink this s**t

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TIL the Simpsons episode "Itchy and Scratchy Land," was written in response to new, stringent censorship laws that were being put in place at the time. Fox had tried to prevent the inclusion of Itchy and Scratchy cartoons in the show, prompting the writers to make the episode as violent as possible.

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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

In what store do you have those hooks on the cart?... Oh, and I wash my reusable bags. So far, I've got five that have lasted about fifteen years.

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Dave P
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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

This is false. It was never seriously considered, and this myth was pushed by the Muslim Brotherhood in the 1930's. Further by that time Japan was one of the biggest imperialistic powers in Asia, Japan only made public any of this as a means to prepare places like Indonesia to accept an eventual Japanese conquest

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