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There's always something new you can learn. Something that can broaden your horizons. You just have to know where to look.

One of the places that offer a never-ending flow of knowledge is the subreddit 'Today I Learned' (or TIL for short). People go there to share all the interesting stuff they discover, and the fact that its members are the ones who produce its content is what makes TIL such an enjoyable encyclopedia. It's legit. It's unpredictable. And it's constantly getting new submissions. What more could one ask for?

Continue scrolling to check out some of its hottest new posts and if you want to continue your "studies", fire up our earlier pieces on the subreddit here, hereand here.

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40 Interesting Things People Didn’t Learn At School And Decided To Share Them In This Online Group (New Pics) TIL Judith Love Cohen, who helped create the Abort-Guidance System which rescued the Apollo 13 astronauts, went to work on the day she was in labor. She took a printout of a problem she was working on to the hospital. She called her boss and said she finished the problem and gave birth to Jack Black

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

Yes, THE Jack Black from Tenacious D and School of Rock. https://film.avclub.com/jack-black-s-mom-was-a-nasa-engineer-who-helped-bring-t-1846768439

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40 Interesting Things People Didn’t Learn At School And Decided To Share Them In This Online Group (New Pics) TIL about the Great Green Wall, an effort to plant trees to stop desertification in the Sahara that began in 2007. Ethiopia has planted over 5.5 billion seedling since

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40 Interesting Things People Didn’t Learn At School And Decided To Share Them In This Online Group (New Pics) TIL Hours after being adopted from an animal shelter, 21-pound cat Pudding saved her owners life. While suffering a diabetic seizure, Amy Jung's newly acquired cat pounced his weight on her chest and began swatting her face and biting her nose until she gained consciousness.

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40 Interesting Things People Didn’t Learn At School And Decided To Share Them In This Online Group (New Pics) TIL that ravens and wolves have formed a mutually beneficial relationship out in the wild. Ravens have been observed calling wolves to the site of dead animals so that the wolves will then open up the carcass and leave the scraps for the ravens once they're finished.

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

Symbiotic relationships occur throughout nature. One of which people are aware is the sea anemone and the clown fish. Thanks, "Finding Nemo".

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40 Interesting Things People Didn’t Learn At School And Decided To Share Them In This Online Group (New Pics) TIL that in 1995, a man received a "check" for $95,000 as junk mail. Jokingly, he deposited it into his account. The "check" met all of the legal criteria for a check and was cashed

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40 Interesting Things People Didn’t Learn At School And Decided To Share Them In This Online Group (New Pics) TIL of Elouise Cobell (“Yellow Bird Woman”) who founded the first Native American owned bank. As treasurer of the Blackfeet Nation she tried to resolve accounting discrepancies regarding leases on Indian Land which led to a $3.4 Billion dollar class action settlement against the US government.

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40 Interesting Things People Didn’t Learn At School And Decided To Share Them In This Online Group (New Pics) TIL NASA's longest serving female employee since January 1958, Sue Finley, has been an engineer and programmer for space missions since Explorer 1, for missions to the Moon, Sun, all the planets and many other solar system bodies, and recipient of NASA's Exceptional Public Service Medal.

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40 Interesting Things People Didn’t Learn At School And Decided To Share Them In This Online Group (New Pics) TIL the King's doctor Johann Struensee seized power for over a year in 18th century Denmark. He managed to abolish slavery, abolish censorship of the press, and have an affair with the Queen before being ousted and executed in 1772

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

Apparently there is a film about this guy, 'a royal affair'. I shall be looking it up.

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40 Interesting Things People Didn’t Learn At School And Decided To Share Them In This Online Group (New Pics) TIL that the worlds rarest tree, Kaikōmako native to New Zealand, has been rescued from extinction after 40 years of trying to get the very last female tree in the world to fruit again

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

I didn't know that either and it's where I live! We mostly hear about the endangered wildlife

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40 Interesting Things People Didn’t Learn At School And Decided To Share Them In This Online Group (New Pics) TIL Richard Simmons would wake up at 4AM to call up to 40 people who are isolated, alone, or needed empathy. Some credited Richard Simmons for saving their lives

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40 Interesting Things People Didn’t Learn At School And Decided To Share Them In This Online Group (New Pics) TIL Friends Thomas Cook and Joseph Feeney shook hands in 1992, swearing if either one won the Powerball jackpot, they would split the winnings. Well the power of friendship and a handshake has paid off: 28 years later Tom won €22 million and split the winnings with his friend

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40 Interesting Things People Didn’t Learn At School And Decided To Share Them In This Online Group (New Pics) TIL About a 17 year old kid that was given an old iPhone for free, and using the "barter" section of Craigslist made 14 trades, ending with a Porsche. Along the way he traded for newer phones, computers, motorcycles, and eventually cars.

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40 Interesting Things People Didn’t Learn At School And Decided To Share Them In This Online Group (New Pics) TIL that Walter Breuning stopped smoking cigars at age 103 because they became too expensive. At age 108, he began smoking cigars again after receiving a lot of gifts of cigars. He ultimately ended up living to age 114.5 and was the second-last verified surviving man born in the 1800s

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

Smoking an occasional cigar is personal health decision (risk) that should not be judged. Let's not read too much into this.

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40 Interesting Things People Didn’t Learn At School And Decided To Share Them In This Online Group (New Pics) TIL in 1998, a 10-year-old girl in Austria was dragged into a car and kidnapped. The case remained unsolved until she knocked on someone's door in 2006 saying: "I am Natascha Kampusch." She had just escaped the secret cellar of a local technician that abused her for 8 years

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

Natascha is the subject of a Netflix documentary. It's quite interesting. I won't give too much away. Outside of the documentary, her mother was later accused of sexually abusing Natascha, and orchestrating her abduction. Needless to say, the entire case was bizarre.

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

So many f*****g sicko's out there. How awful that would have been for her, so glad she escaped.

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

If you think this is horrible, wait until you read about Fritzl case

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Jo Choto
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

There's a documentary on Netflix about her. In German with subtitles. She's one hell of a gutsy woman, that's for sure.

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

This was all over the news, all over the world... Horrible, horrible case

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

Unfortunately this isn’t an isolated case, repeated many times all over the world.

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

I remember watching the news back then. I had completely forgotten about her. Hope she's managing to have a normal and fulfilling life...

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

Oh my god! The poor girl! And incredibly brave to manage to get away.

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

I read her book! It was very harrowing. It's called '3086 days'

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

I remember her reappearance; she had been kept not far from her home

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Guido Pisano
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

their parents couldn't see her growing and her childhood has been stolen...

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

Look up 'Ruinerwold'. Most bizarre case in the Netherlands where a father kept 9 children a secret for years. One day thenoldest son just pops up in a local cafe, orders a beer and casually tells the bartender to call the police because there are children held captive at a farm nearby

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

this story is so horrible and unique. she even went skiing with the kidnapper. there is an interview with the 18y old woman two weeks after she freed herself and gosh, this was so overwhelming. What was almost the most impressive for me, was her range of words and phrases considering she "left" school at the age of 10!

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

She was given books and had tv and radio, she did detail extensively she decided to react and keep herself alive. She understood what happened and decided to resist to get her life back.

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

She was 8 when kidnapped, and escaped at 18. She eventually bought the house she was locked in and filled her cell with concrete, to avoid sick tourism in the place.

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

And there are people BLAMING her for not escaping earlier..because in movies the heroine does solve anything easy. I am not making this up she got hate mails and people "doubting" her because "If they'd gotten kidnapped, they'd done something about it". Sometimes people are the WORST! She is an incredibly strong and outspoken woman, my heart goes out for her

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

Now we get to torture the "local technician" for 8 years. Can't wait for my turn. Normally I'm not a vindictive person but this stirs a burning deep within.

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

That pos committed suicide when he understood he was going to get arrested, unfortunately

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Carlotta Müller
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I thought everyone knows that. But I live in germany. It can't have been that big of a news in farther away countries.

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

Usually I've heard that they get that stock holm syndrome and then never leave

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

I hope he is dead now. She is very strong and I wish her nothing but the best.

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

I can only hope that technician is now locked in a secret cellar.

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Amanda Hunter
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Oh the poor little girl, I hope they guy gets the treatment from his fellow prisoners.

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Karin Jansen
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

How did you not know this? It was all over the news. Poor, brave girl.

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

Some pandas weren't even born then, some were too young, some live in a country/continent where this wasn't huge news for days. And plenty other reasons.

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Doesn't everyone know about this?

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She was vacuuming his house wheb he wasn't home and saw people outside but didn't contact them. Very strange

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I find it strange when Bored Panda posts stuff like this. A child is raped and starved for 8 years, and Bored Panda uses this content to sell advertising and make money. It just feels wrong.

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

Don't worry. She sold the story herself. Wrote books and movies and documentaries were made.

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40 Interesting Things People Didn’t Learn At School And Decided To Share Them In This Online Group (New Pics) TIL that in the 70s, Fort Lauderdale, Florida, tried creating its own artificial coral reef by dumping some 2 million used tires into the ocean. It became an environmental disaster, naturally, but also a military training exercise when divers had to retrieve the tires (almost one by one).

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

I am becoming more and more convinced that Florida is some kind of laboratory to test stupid ideas.

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40 Interesting Things People Didn’t Learn At School And Decided To Share Them In This Online Group (New Pics) TIL over 8,000 pieces of music were secretly created in Nazi concentration camps; including symphonies, operas, and songs scribbled on everything from food wrappings to potato sacks. One prisoner composed an entire symphony on toilet paper using the charcoal given to him as dysentery medicine

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40 Interesting Things People Didn’t Learn At School And Decided To Share Them In This Online Group (New Pics) TIL about Terry Fox, a Canadian athlete with a leg that was amputated due to cancer. He ran across Canada for about 143 days and ran about 5373 kilometers(3339 miles) in order to raise both money and awareness for cancer

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40 Interesting Things People Didn’t Learn At School And Decided To Share Them In This Online Group (New Pics) TIL a new kind of artificial cornea successfully restored sight in a 78-year-old man. The surgery uses a lens which can more easily replace damaged tissue in a simpler surgery. Immediately after the surgery, the patient was able to recognize family members and read numbers on an eye chart.

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

This warms my heart ❤️ Imagine being able to give someone the gift of having their sight back.

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40 Interesting Things People Didn’t Learn At School And Decided To Share Them In This Online Group (New Pics) TIL that, in 2014, scientists found a giant 30,000 year old virus in Siberian permafrost. The virus, Pithovirus sibericum, was still infectious and began killing amoebas. This raised concerns that melting or drilling arctic ice could unearth previously undiscovered pathogenic viruses

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40 Interesting Things People Didn’t Learn At School And Decided To Share Them In This Online Group (New Pics) TIL Police in Finland believe they have caught a car thief with the help of a dead mosquito they noticed inside an abandoned vehicle. Police saw that the mosquito had recently sucked blood and decided to send the insect for analysis, and the DNA matched the man on the Police Register.

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

This may be the one thing that mosquitos have ever done to actually help out humans

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40 Interesting Things People Didn’t Learn At School And Decided To Share Them In This Online Group (New Pics) TIL The actor who played Boss Hogg on Dukes of Hazard went to Columbia and Yale, spoke 5 languages, and was a counterintelligence officer during the Korean War

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

You have to be smart to play that stupid, often the case thst those we look at as the dumb one in a show ends up being a genius or super talented in some other way.

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40 Interesting Things People Didn’t Learn At School And Decided To Share Them In This Online Group (New Pics) TIL that each year, 22,000 pounds of dust from the Sahara Desert is carried by air currents to the Amazon Rainforest where it is an important source of phosphorus for tropical plants

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

I watched a doco on this, it was quite interesting and more too it. I can't remember the full details but it also talked about that process also helping produce a phytoplankton etc. Wish I remembered, that's gonna annoy me now lol.

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40 Interesting Things People Didn’t Learn At School And Decided To Share Them In This Online Group (New Pics) TIL Jack Black desperately wanted to use a Led Zeppelin song in School Of Rock but the band was notoriously reluctant to let their music be used in films. The director suggested having Black record a personal plea to the band members, in front of a crowd of 1,000 extras. It worked

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

He should have led with saying his mum helped rescue the Apollo13 astronauts

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40 Interesting Things People Didn’t Learn At School And Decided To Share Them In This Online Group (New Pics) TIL when, in 1993, the US postal service issued a commemorative postage stamp honoring Elvis Presley's 58th birthday, fans mailed envelopes with first-day issues of the stamp to fictitious addresses so that they would receive their letters back, marked with the words "return to sender".

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

I had never heard of the song 'Return to Sender' until now but that's brilliant.

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40 Interesting Things People Didn’t Learn At School And Decided To Share Them In This Online Group (New Pics) TIL when a chimpanzee that learns an effective method to crack nuts open is placed into a new group that uses a less effective strategy, it will eventually stop using the superior method just to blend in with the rest of the chimps

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

This works the same with humans. The group, no matter how stupid, is always superior. You will have to crack eventually just to be able to live a pleasant life. Not cool.

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40 Interesting Things People Didn’t Learn At School And Decided To Share Them In This Online Group (New Pics) TIL that Rod Serling, creator of The Twilight Zone, sold the series as a pure entertainment vehicle due to censorship he experienced with previous projects that would delve into controversial social/political issues. The Twilight Zone tackled the same issues but veiled in science fiction and fantasy

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

I'm a big fan of Rod Serling's other series, 'The Night Gallery'. I have all the seasons on DVD. I should re-watch them.

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40 Interesting Things People Didn’t Learn At School And Decided To Share Them In This Online Group (New Pics) TIL that James K. Polk is the only US president who pledged to serve only one term during his campaign. He was known for fulfilling all his major promises and died 3 months after his term ended, making his retirement the shortest. He is also the only speaker of the house to be elected as president

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40 Interesting Things People Didn’t Learn At School And Decided To Share Them In This Online Group (New Pics) TIL that over 200 bird species including the Northern Cardinals, wild turkeys and Baltimore Orioles use a method of pest control called "anting." They take an ant in their beak and wipe their tail feathers in order to deter lice. The ants release formic acid that the birds utilize routinely

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40 Interesting Things People Didn’t Learn At School And Decided To Share Them In This Online Group (New Pics) TIL when your immune system fights an infection, it cranks up the mutation rate during antibody production by a factor of 1,000,000, and then has them compete with each other. This natural selection process creates highly specific antibodies for the virus

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40 Interesting Things People Didn’t Learn At School And Decided To Share Them In This Online Group (New Pics) TIL in 1879 it was estimated the Oxford English Dictionary to take 10 years for completion, but in five years they'd only reached the word "Ant". After crowdsourcing readers to help it was completed 44 years later. The publishers now estimate it would take a single person 120 years to just type it

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40 Interesting Things People Didn’t Learn At School And Decided To Share Them In This Online Group (New Pics) TIL that Gaddafi had a serious obsession with Condoleezza Rice, showering her with over $200,000 in gifts and having a famous local composer write a song for her called “Black Flower in the White House”

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40 Interesting Things People Didn’t Learn At School And Decided To Share Them In This Online Group (New Pics) TIL Thomas Midgley Jr, who helped invent leaded petrol, once poured the lead additive over his hands and inhaled its fumes to prove it was safe. He was later diagnosed with lead poisoning... for the second time.

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40 Interesting Things People Didn’t Learn At School And Decided To Share Them In This Online Group (New Pics) TIL that in 1999, a group of hackers discovered that they could enter any Hotmail account by simply entering “eh” as a password. It was fixed by Microsoft within two hours.

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40 Interesting Things People Didn’t Learn At School And Decided To Share Them In This Online Group (New Pics) TIL that Beverly Hills, California is named after Beverly Farms, Massachusetts, which was named after the town Beverley in Yorkshire England, which came from the name "Beverlac" in the 10th century, meaning "beaver lake," because of all the beavers in the nearby river

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

Doesn't surprise me, a lot of places in the US and around the world are named after the colonisers and their lands

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40 Interesting Things People Didn’t Learn At School And Decided To Share Them In This Online Group (New Pics) TIL that in 1967 the Soviet cosmonaut, Vladimir Komarov died in an accident on the Soyuz 1 mission, making him the first human to die in a space flight. Komarov was aware of the faulty design of the shuttle and specifically asked the authorities to give him an open casket funeral after the mission

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

I read about this recently. He knew about the faults and refused to go but was told if he didn't his colleague (and best friend) would have to go in his place. He went, knowing he would die so that his best friend wouldn't go in his place (and ultimately die). He requested the open casket in order to show the Russian authorities what they had done to him.

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40 Interesting Things People Didn’t Learn At School And Decided To Share Them In This Online Group (New Pics) TIL that in 2005 a Russian private was forced to squat for four hours as part of a brutal army hazing ritual and the lack of blood flow resulted in his genitals and legs requiring amputation sparking public outcry in Russia

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40 Interesting Things People Didn’t Learn At School And Decided To Share Them In This Online Group (New Pics) TIL that limping was a fad in Victorian England. Young women admired the genuine limp of Alexandra of Denmark, bride of the Prince of Wales. So, women went around fake limping, dubbed the "Alexandra Limp." Shopkeepers at the time sold pairs of shoes with one high heel and one low.

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40 Interesting Things People Didn’t Learn At School And Decided To Share Them In This Online Group (New Pics) TIL scientists "hacked" the genetic code of brewer's yeast to produce cannabis compounds. They inserted genes from cannabis plants into the yeast's genetic code which allowed it to produce CBD and THC. Their end goal is to allow large scale cannabinoid production without cultivation.

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40 Interesting Things People Didn’t Learn At School And Decided To Share Them In This Online Group (New Pics) TIL According to a survey, 43% of American Cardiologists are overweight to obese.

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40 Interesting Things People Didn’t Learn At School And Decided To Share Them In This Online Group (New Pics) TIL Jane Stanford, founder of Stanford University, was murdered by strychnine poisoning. The president of the university at the time, David Starr Jordan, was suspected of covering up the murder. The killer was never found.

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