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“Today I Learned”: 50 Interesting Facts About The World That Many Have Just Learned (New Posts)

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Did you know that humans have been making our favorite TV snack, popcorn, for over 7000 years? It seems hilarious to imagine the first person seeing a solid corn kernel “explode” into a white, edible puff. While it often gets lost in the onslaught of information out there, the truth is that there are cool new details about our planet and universe being discovered every day.

We’ve gathered some fascinating facts about the world that people only stumbled across recently. So get comfortable as you read through, upvote your favorites and share your thoughts in the comments section below.

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#1

“Today I Learned”: 50 Interesting Facts About The World That Many Have Just Learned (New Posts) Elephant (Tarra) and a dog (Bella) had become close friends at a sanctuary in Tennessee. Unfortunately, one day Bella was killed by coyotes, and Tarra found her body and carried it a mile back to the barn where the staff were.

idiocrites , CBS Report

Final score:

242points

Smol Frog 4 months ago

*sad howls*

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#2

“Today I Learned”: 50 Interesting Facts About The World That Many Have Just Learned (New Posts) When Fox refused to pay for Deadpool screenwriters Rhett Reese & Paul Wernick to be on set every day during filming, Ryan Reynolds paid with his own money to make sure they were there in order to keep the project on the right track & maintain the original creative team.

tyrion2024 , 20th Century Studios Report

Final score:

213points

Beak Hookage 4 months ago

He's such a class act, that guy.

116points

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#3

“Today I Learned”: 50 Interesting Facts About The World That Many Have Just Learned (New Posts) Billy Idol was first choice for the role of T-1000 in Terminator 2, but a motorcycle accident in 1990 prevented it. During his time in hospital he also swore never to wear the Confederate flag again after a black employee explained his feelings on it.

SuicidalGuidedog , DoD News/flickr Report

Final score:

210points

Mavis 4 months ago

Robert Patrick would like to give him a big hug.

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#4

“Today I Learned”: 50 Interesting Facts About The World That Many Have Just Learned (New Posts) There was a real-life Lord of the Flies-esque situation where school boys were stuck on a deserted island for 15 months but the boys banded together rather than feuding.

giveAShot , CannasseurB/reddit Report

Final score:

202points

Samuel Pelatan 4 months ago (edited)

Yup, otherwise our ancerstors wouldn't have survived and we wouldn't be here. Human together strong, human alone gets an infection or a cold, can't hunt/gather for 3 days, and dies.

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#5

“Today I Learned”: 50 Interesting Facts About The World That Many Have Just Learned (New Posts) When the studio refused to meet Sienna Miller's pay request to star in the film 21 Bridges, Chadwick Boseman gave her part of his salary in order meet her number because he said "that's what you should be paid".

tyrion2024 , STX Entertainment Report

Final score:

200points

Moos 4 months ago

RIP, King :(

90points

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#6

“Today I Learned”: 50 Interesting Facts About The World That Many Have Just Learned (New Posts) That elephants stay cancer free as they have 20 copies of a key tumor-fighting gene; humans have just one.

OldWeekend501 , Harvey Sapir /pexels Report

Final score:

200points

Smol Frog 4 months ago

*proceeds to think about creating a cancer immunisation shot*

64points

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#7

“Today I Learned”: 50 Interesting Facts About The World That Many Have Just Learned (New Posts) In parts of the UK, a rule from 1902 mandates that homes facing each other at the rear must be built 21 meters apart. This specific distance was determined by two urban designers who measured how far apart they could see each other's nipples through their shirts.

WTFwhatthehell , Vladimir Kudinov/pexels Report

Final score:

194points

Savahax 4 months ago

Quality research and reasoning. 👍🏻

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#8

“Today I Learned”: 50 Interesting Facts About The World That Many Have Just Learned (New Posts) Isidor Straus, co-owner of Macy's, and his wife Ida died on the Titanic after refusing a lifeboat to prioritize women and children.

Mint_Perspective , James E. Purdy Report

Final score:

186points

Pittsburgh rare 4 months ago

There was a reference to them in the couple who is in bed in James's Cameron Titanic.

96points

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#9

The Luddites were not anti-technology. They were highly-skilled laborers who protested wage reduction and job replacement due to automation.

Final score:

155points

Beak Hookage 4 months ago

They had a point.

64points

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#10

Astronauts on board the ISS need to sleep near a ventilator fan. Warm air does not rise in space so astronauts in badly-ventilated sections end up surrounded by a bubble of carbon dioxide.

malarky-b Report

Final score:

151points

DarkViolet 4 months ago

😳

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#11

“Today I Learned”: 50 Interesting Facts About The World That Many Have Just Learned (New Posts) During a screening of "A Fish Called Wanda," Danish audiologist Ole Bentzen died from heart fibrillation, caused by an increased heart rate due to extended laughter. Newspapers reported he died laughing. Writer John Cleese considered using it for publicity but ultimately deemed it inappropriate.

Kale_Brecht , United International Pictures Report

Final score:

146points

Sergy Yeltsen 4 months ago

The Goodies did it first.

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#12

“Today I Learned”: 50 Interesting Facts About The World That Many Have Just Learned (New Posts) In 2012 a British man named Wesley Carrington bought a metal detector and within 20 minutes found gold from the Roman Age worth £100,000.

OldWeekend501 , Pixabay /pexels Report

Final score:

146points

Smol Frog 4 months ago

bye, i'm going to buy a metal detector

65points

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#13

“Today I Learned”: 50 Interesting Facts About The World That Many Have Just Learned (New Posts) Stephen Hawking completed a final multiverse theory explaining how mankind might detect parallel universes just 10 days before he died.

toaster_strudel_ , NASA/Paul Alers Report

Final score:

141points

Savahax 4 months ago (edited)

https://arxiv.org/abs/1707.07702v2 that's the paper. Not easy to follow for some pandas 😅

38points

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#14

Scientists used a dating method to show a Viking ax cut trees on the North American continent exactly 1000 years ago, in 1021 C.E. This dating method uses a spike in solar radiation that left a mark in tree rings around the world. This proves the Vikings arrived before Christopher Columbus.

Buffalo_wing_eater Report

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137points

Andrew Read 4 months ago

Finding a Viking village in Newfoundland was also a bit of a clue.

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#15

“Today I Learned”: 50 Interesting Facts About The World That Many Have Just Learned (New Posts) when Domino’s Pizza entered the Italian market in 2015, the company had an ambitious plan of opening 880 outlets across the country by 2030. It got as far as opening 29 branches, that were all closed by 2022

9oRo , Todd Van Hoosear/flickr Report

Final score:

133points

Pittsburgh rare 4 months ago

Well, duh. What were they expecting? 😂

131points

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#16

“Today I Learned”: 50 Interesting Facts About The World That Many Have Just Learned (New Posts) There are over 1,000 homes in Edinburgh, Scotland that nobody has lived in for over 10 years. The most common reason is a reclusive homeowner passing away and nobody realizing they've inherited the property.

sanandrios , Muhammed Zahid Bulut/pexels Report

Final score:

131points

My O My 4 months ago

May I have one of these houses? Nobody seems to be missing out on them

114points

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#17

“Today I Learned”: 50 Interesting Facts About The World That Many Have Just Learned (New Posts) In 2022 seat belt use in the US was 91.6% of occupants (8.4% unrestrained) and unrestrained occupant deaths accounted for 49.8% of deaths.

tyrion2024 , Luke Miller /pexels Report

Final score:

128points

Mimi M 4 months ago

To put it another way, in the words of a State Trooper: 'I've been on the job for decades and been at many fatal accidents, and I've never unbuckled a corpse'.

183points

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#18

“Today I Learned”: 50 Interesting Facts About The World That Many Have Just Learned (New Posts) Columbia Pictures refused to greenlight the 1993 film Groundhog Day without explaining why Phil becomes trapped in the same day. Producer Trevor Albert and director Harold Ramis appeased the studio, but deliberately placed the scenes too late in the shooting schedule to be filmed.

Kale_Brecht , Columbia Pictures Report

Final score:

120points

CaliCoast 4 months ago

He becomes trapped because he's a d**k. He can only get out of the loop by becoming not a d**k. Duh.

127points

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#19

In 1968, over 6000 sheep were killed in Utah and popular theories pointed to the Army. It was revealed 30 years later that it was indeed the result of nerve agent testing. Families nearby developed nervous system illnesses, but the Army accepted no responsibility.

Flares117 Report

Final score:

120points

Wilfredo 4 months ago

What's new?

85points

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#20

Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde (1886) was written by Robert Louis Stevenson during a 6-day [substance] binge. His wife Fanny said: "That an invalid in my husband's condition of health" was able to do "the manual labour alone of putting 60K words on paper in 6 days seems almost incredible".

tyrion2024 Report

Final score:

116points

Savahax 4 months ago

That's coke for ya 😁👌🏻

68points

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#21

Possum Trot, a small town in Texas, adopted all the foster kids on a waiting list, eliminating the need for foster homes within a 100-mile radius.

flyinghippolife Report

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110points

Bored Birgit 4 months ago

It is now a film "Sound of hope". 22 families from a rural Black church adopted 77 kids from the foster system.

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#22

“Today I Learned”: 50 Interesting Facts About The World That Many Have Just Learned (New Posts) Anne, Queen of Great Britain had at least 17 pregnancies over a 17-year period & had miscarried or given birth to stillborn children at least 12 times. Of her 5 liveborn children, 4 died before the age of two & her sole surviving child, Prince William, Duke of Gloucester, died at age eleven.

tyrion2024 , Sir Godfrey Kneller Report

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105points

Little Wonder 4 months ago

This is why we think people didn't live as long in the past - children died so often and in such numbers it lowered the average age of death.

130points

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#23

In 1967 at the outbreak of the Six Day War the Suez Canal was shut down stranding fifteen ships, anchored together the crews formed a yachting club, held lifeboat races, and produced their own postage stamps — the ships would remain there until 1974.

JesseBricks Report

Final score:

105points

Dumb teenager 4 months ago

At that piont they might as well have declared themselves an independent nation

71points

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#24

“Today I Learned”: 50 Interesting Facts About The World That Many Have Just Learned (New Posts) After actor Sean Astin turned 18, he left numerous personal items at his mother Patty Duke's house. Upon returning for them, many items, including the treasure map from "The Goonies," were gone. “It’s an item that would probably be worth $100,000 now,” he said. “And I think my mom threw it out.”

Kale_Brecht , Warner Bros Report

Final score:

102points

Upstaged75 4 months ago

TIL that Patty Duke is Sean Astin's mother!

69points

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#25

Harrison Okene (a cook) survived 3 days at the bottom of the ocean in a sunken ship by finding an air pocket.

q007_Accee1963 Report

Final score:

97points

Smol Frog 4 months ago

hooray for air!

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#26

After ABC executives & producers encouraged Margaret Cho to go on a crash diet, while filming her TV series All-American Girl in 1994, she lost 30 lbs (14 kg) in 2 weeks. This resulted in her hospitalization for kidney failure & led to major health issues that continued for years after the show.

tyrion2024 Report

Final score:

97points

troufaki13 4 months ago

Hollywood please stop imposing ridiculous beauty standards to your employees and consequently to the rest of the world.

119points

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#27

“Today I Learned”: 50 Interesting Facts About The World That Many Have Just Learned (New Posts) Juicero, a company that made a $699 juicer requiring Wi-Fi, an app, and QR-coded produce packs that had to be scanned and verified before juicing. Journalists found that the packs were easily squeezeable by hand, yielding the same results as the juicer. The company shut down shortly after.

staythirsty90 , Steve Jurvetson/flickr Report

Final score:

95points

🇳🇬 Asi Bassey 🇳🇬 4 months ago

Over-engineering at its finest.

67points

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#28

“Today I Learned”: 50 Interesting Facts About The World That Many Have Just Learned (New Posts) Most newborns cry for 45 minutes to two hours every day during the first six months of life because crying is the only way they communicate.

ubcstaffer123 , Sarah Chai/pexels Report

Final score:

93points

🇳🇬 Asi Bassey 🇳🇬 4 months ago

Some mums would disagree with “45 minutes to two hours.”

112points

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#29

A study where monkeys were shown to be willing to pay (sacrificing food) for risque photos of other monkeys.

Final score:

93points

Candid Panda 4 months ago

So monkey porn?

70points

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#30

That the Wizard of OZ is only the 1st of 14 original works, and a total of 40 books in a series about the Land of OZ.

Jerry-And-Tom Report

Final score:

91points

DE Ray 4 months ago

It was also supposed to be a political satire rather than a children's story, but people either didn't get or didn't care about the political angle (Baum was a supporter of the "bimetal standard", which was a fringe political movement of the day).

27points

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#31

That in 1956 the canals in Venice, Italy were drained and cleaned.

hutch__PJ Report

Final score:

87points

Annik Perrot 4 months ago

Time to do it again.

69points

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#32

“Today I Learned”: 50 Interesting Facts About The World That Many Have Just Learned (New Posts) Buzz Aldrin battled depression and alcohol addiction after the Moon landing.

OriginalPlayerHater , NASA Report

Final score:

83points

Samuel Pelatan 4 months ago (edited)

I kinda get it. When your goal is that encompassing you need something to replace it after you reached it. Otherwise you've got a lot of void to stare at.

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#33

“Today I Learned”: 50 Interesting Facts About The World That Many Have Just Learned (New Posts) A mathematics professor at Stanford University was [unalived] by his doctoral student who had been trying to get a PhD for 19 years.

z277_Denight52 , RDNE Stock project/pexels Report

Final score:

80points

Francis 4 months ago

unalived.. that sounds like the student was robbing his soul.. bored panda, please stop this! He was murdered!

188points

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#34

“Today I Learned”: 50 Interesting Facts About The World That Many Have Just Learned (New Posts) Bob The Builder was altered for Japanese children so they wouldn’t confuse him for a Yakuza member.

Mattdaddie69 , GoodVillain101/reddit Report

Final score:

79points

🇳🇬 Asi Bassey 🇳🇬 4 months ago

What about Bob the builder says Yakuza?

66points

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#35

Michelangelo spent two months hiding in the underground chamber while evading a death sentence ordered by the Pope.

MyKinkyCountess Report

Final score:

79points

Captain McSmoot 4 months ago

And no mention of the other Ninja Turtles?

99points

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#36

During the 1920s, Guinness was recommended to pregnant women due to the perceived high iron content of the drink.

TommyJarvis12 Report

Final score:

77points

Little Wonder 4 months ago

Yep, a pint a day was recommended to a lot of people for medical reasons. There's barely any iron in Guinness, btw.

51points

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#37

“Today I Learned”: 50 Interesting Facts About The World That Many Have Just Learned (New Posts) A pizzeria owner discovered DoorDash was conducting a "demand test" and had a lower price for his pizza even though he had not asked for the pizzeria to be on the app. The owner ordered 10 pizzas on the app, paid $160, and had them delivered to a friend. DoorDash paid the restaurant $240.

Forward-Answer-4407 , RDNE Stock project/pexels Report

Final score:

76points

Emma London 4 months ago

That wouldn't fly in EU. Adding individual restaurants in you ordering service for free sounds like a good idea, BUT it's purpose is to gain a monopoly in the area and then rise the prices after the customers have learned to use only them.

30points

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#38

“Today I Learned”: 50 Interesting Facts About The World That Many Have Just Learned (New Posts) During “Hell week” of Navy SEAL training, candidates are given no more than 4 hours sleep over five and a half days, all while under continual mental and physical stress.

xrc20 , Somchai Kongkamsri/pexels Report

Final score:

75points

François Bouzigues 4 months ago

I have twins. Months of this when they were babies.

143points

Beak Hookage 4 months ago

Congratulations, soldier - you've just been promoted!

31points

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JLo 4 months ago

LOL, and soldiers can quit hell week. Moms can't! Soldiers are constantly supervised and are rarely injured during hell week. Moms get no supervision and are faced with life or death situations if they mess up!

13points

robin aldrich 4 months ago

I'd say that qualifies you

2points

BlitheSpirit 4 months ago

Same 😵‍💫

0points

Pittsburgh rare 4 months ago

In the worst of my insomnia I had a week like that. By the fourth day I was experiencing depression symptoms, mental blur and extreme tiredness. I can't imagine having to train on top of that.

13points

TennesseeHomesteadUSA 4 months ago

Picture not of US Navy Seals.

7points

Lil Miss Hobbit 4 months ago

It is much more grueling than that. Often they conduct Hell Week during cold weather and they do not get breaks. They begin to hallucinate and experience memory loss after the 3rd day. Apparently it is easier to stay awake during that time than it is to only have 4 hours of rest...because their bodies just begin to heal and switch to "rest" mode and then the officers get them up again, leading to tense muscles and more pain.

7points

madbakes 4 months ago

It's four hours total over 5 days, not 4 hours per night.

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Lydsylou (she/her) 4 months ago

Are there any pandas who have been through hell week to explain what it's like?

5points

Louise Kamau 4 months ago

Get kids. When they're sick Hell Week will sound like a vacation afterwards.. At least the soldiers know when they get to sleep through.

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StrangeOne 4 months ago

This is why not everyone is cut out for the army and any of those branches.

4points

Robert T 4 months ago (edited)

Having listened to a guy yesterday telling us about the Royal Marines candidate selection and training process, this sounds mild! There is a fairly realistic possibility of dying during it!

4points

Tom Brincefield 4 months ago

It isn't mild. It is 4 hours of sleep over 5 days, not 4 hours a night for 5 days. The training lasts 56 weeks, and about 80% of the people who attempt it fail out. And those are already the top candidates in the Navy. And plenty of people get seriously injured, even crippled, during the training. And some do die.

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Strings 4 months ago

Interesting addition (told to me by one of the SEALs aboard my ship): Hell Week isn't the hardest. The hardest is Hydro Recon (the week AFTER Hell Week)...

3points

Arenite 4 months ago

The whole point of military training is to get you to throw out the moral values you grew up with and kill. Such wonderfully well-adjusted people, soldiers.

2points

Gracie Mae 4 months ago

had a colicky baby, i barely got 2 hrs of sleep a night for almost 3 months!

2points

Doofnuts 4 months ago

I only knew one SEAL during my 24 years in the Navy. Pleasant guy for a trained assassin, but we need them, unfortunately.

2points

Batwench Premium 4 months ago

This happens in most special ops training courses.

1point

Willin 4 months ago

Hell turn-arounds. Drive 25 miles to the plant, work 16, drive home, take care of the livestock, eat and make lunch and get clean, sleep, repeat. 4 weeks of that and I was running into walls when I woke up.

1point

Andrew 4 months ago

And David Goggins went through it 3 times 😳

1point

Nova yt 4 months ago

I remember watching a special and just when you think they've pushed them as far as humanly possible they then make them do all the most extraneous physical activity all over again without stopping. So crazy

1point

Russell Bowman 4 months ago

Get comfortable being uncomfortable.

1point

Roan The Demon Kitty 4 months ago

Only for a week? >.>

1point

madbakes 4 months ago

The training is much longer than that. That's just the first week.

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Upthegunners_Arsenalfan 4 months ago

I’m in the British SAS. In training we has a simillar thing, except it runs for all of our training, it is in the snowy winter at the Brecon beacons and is much more tough than this, four hours of sleep is very generous by British standards

1point

Uncanny 4 months ago

Did you read this as four hours sleep a night? Because that would be generous. Four hours sleep over 5 1/2 days is definitely not.

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Richienotsorich 3 months ago

Sounds like my job!

0points

Janice Sanz 4 months ago

AWFUL

0points

Ian Cryar 4 months ago

I’m a twin

0points

Jeffrey Diehl Premium 4 months ago

Put them under conditions as close to what they will face in the field, or even tougher, and they will accomplish their missions with greater success.

0points

Arkham Wohlfert 4 months ago

I wonder what the actual point of it is. To make the rest seem easier? It certainly isn't to increase physical power or health, that kind of thing shuts the body down; muscle can't build, muscle memory can't function so they aren't learning much, if anything.

0points

MalibuClassicMan 4 months ago

No wonder they tough as H*ll then

0points

rumple slunkskin 4 months ago

I did this one week when I was exiting one job for another and had some overlap days.

0points

Lsai Aeon 4 months ago (edited)

I've had severe insomnia since 1983. You just described my life

0points

PFD 4 months ago

I had a week like this when I took too much meth

0points

Colleen Glim 4 months ago

Any new mother could pass this without thinking. Think about that before you celebrate navy seals

-3points

Nikole 4 months ago

A new mother gets four hours of sleep over five and a half days?

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WonderWoman 4 months ago

Sure, you do that to them and they 'survive' and if they ever have to face it in real life, those hell week training won't have helped even a little bit.

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madbakes 4 months ago

Why do you think that???

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#39

“Today I Learned”: 50 Interesting Facts About The World That Many Have Just Learned (New Posts) Elizabeth I had a lot of missing teeth from eating too much sweets, making it difficult for foreign ambassadors to understand what she was saying.

NiceTraining7671 , wikipedia Report

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75points

Smol Frog 4 months ago

i want a thauthage with my thoup for thupper! bring it to me thervant!

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#40

A computer study of over a million samples of normal English prose found that the longest word one is likely to encounter on an everyday basis is 'uncharacteristically' at 20 letters.

tyrion2024 Report

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74points

Marianne 4 months ago

I wonder how long the longest frequently used word in German is.

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#41

“Today I Learned”: 50 Interesting Facts About The World That Many Have Just Learned (New Posts) From 1970 to 2015, The Sun published a picture of a topless female model on its page 3.

Johannes_P , ToddAF Report

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71points

Onan Hag All 4 months ago

Sam Fox, Melinda Messenger, Linda Lusardi, Jodie Marsh.. Fond memories, (fond mammaries?)

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#42

Six-year-old Cao Qixian set a new women's world record by solving a 3x3x3 Rubik's Cube in an average time of 5.97 seconds. She became the first female ever to achieve an average time of under 6 seconds.

tyrion2024 Report

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71points

SlightlyTarnished 4 months ago

I don't get why the differentiation between the sexes, it's a puzzle, not olympic shot putting.

6points

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#43

Mu Us desert in China was completely wiped out by reforestation efforts.

Extension-Radio-9701 Report

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69points

Ace 4 months ago

HAd to google it, but yeah, the process of desertification that was rampant from the 1950s was halted by concerted efforts, including planting of trees amongst other things.

16points

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#44

The Prussian language, which has been extinct since the 17th century, is slowly being revived, and for the first time, children are growing up with it as their first language.

ravennesejaguar Report

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69points

Agfox 4 months ago

It's known as Old Prussian to distinguish it from High Prussian and Low Prussian both of which were groups of dialects that are now are virtually extinct

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#45

Human Genome Project started in 1990 and by 2003, scientists had successfully documented 92% of the genome. However, it would take until 2022 before the final 8% was mapped and a full human genome was completely sequenced.

tyrion2024 Report

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67points

marianne eliza 4 months ago (edited)

Most animals have genes that do the same thing in any species. Like 2 eyes, ears, a nose and mouth. Food goes in one end and out the other. And so on. So it was probably easy to ID those genes. It's the ones that made us humans were the tough ones. BTW bananas and humans share roughly 50-60% of our DNA. Cats 90%. Dogs 84%. Pigs 98%.

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#46

The capital of Canada once alternated between Toronto and Québec every four years. Queen Victoria selected Ottawa in 1857 because it sits far from the American border and it is situated on a cliff, making it easier to defend from a possible attack.

ubcstaffer123 Report

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66points

Blayze Infyrno 4 months ago

Well ok, the PROVINCE of Canada, before Confederation. And before that, Kingston. Ottawa was ultimately chosen because it's on the border of Ontario and Quebec, the two original provinces of the country of Canada.

20points

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#47

“Today I Learned”: 50 Interesting Facts About The World That Many Have Just Learned (New Posts) Frank Zappa’s son was born, the nurse refused to register him with the name “Dweezil,” so Zappa started listing names of musicians he knew, which became his son’s legal name(s). When Dweezil was five, his parents fought to legally change his name to Dweezil at his request and won.

simeggy , BenoitAubry/wikipedia Report

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64points

My O My 4 months ago

Is Dweezil happy with his name?

33points

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#48

“Today I Learned”: 50 Interesting Facts About The World That Many Have Just Learned (New Posts) Every even number is the sum of two primes, according to the Goldbach Conjecture, which has been verified up to 19 digits.

hova414 , matheasel Report

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56points

Smol Frog 4 months ago

*brain malfunction*

51points

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#49

In 1590, starving Parisians ground human bones into bread.

Final score:

54points

Serial pacifist 4 months ago

The infamous canibaguette.

119points

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#50

When Napoleon surrendered after Waterloo he assumed he would be allowed to see out his exile comfortably as a foreign monarch in Britain, writing to the Prince Regent to ask "for a country house ‘about ten or twelve leagues from London – a big enough house to accommodate all my suite’."

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Savahax 4 months ago

He got a smaller house but still was allowed to "retire" on St. Helena

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#51

Drivers have complained of being trapped inside their electric vehicle after the vehicle's 12-volt battery died and they did not know how to open the car doors.

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21points

My O My 4 months ago

Pro tip: there is a lite lever in each door for exactly this purpose

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#52

When England held its first lottery in 1567 everyone who bought a ticket got immunity from one arrest as long as it was not piracy, murder, felonies, or treason. Prizes for winning the lottery were £5,000 in cash, but also goods like plate, tapestries and “good linen cloth.”

Goat_the_Kid Report

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21points

Little Wonder 4 months ago

Ooh, good linen cloth? Sign me up!

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#53

“Today I Learned”: 50 Interesting Facts About The World That Many Have Just Learned (New Posts) A teen got hyperacusis after an airhorn was blasted near her ear. Her type of hyperacusis makes her so sensitive to sound that it hurts and caused her to drop out of school because the voices of teachers were too painful. She also needs special noise cancelling headphones at the mall.

Forward-Answer-4407 , Liza Summer/pexels Report

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20points

Jennifer Smith 4 months ago

I got this after chemotherapy.

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#54

When "old age" is cited as cause of death in a medical context, the person had multiple illnesses and it is not clear which one [ended] them; it has gotten less common over time due to better medical detection.

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20points

Beak Hookage 4 months ago

I actually got to see my grandfather's death certificate and he did indeed have a string of different conditions listed, but the one cited as his cause of death was "respiratory failure".

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#55

According to actor Rick Moranis, in the original script for the 1987 film Spaceballs, the description of Dark Helmet was that the whole costume was one gigantic helmet. Then it got scaled back to just an exaggerated version of the Darth Vader helmet.

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19points

Savahax 4 months ago

That would've been hilarious!

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#56

The quote "I fear we have awakened a sleeping giant" by Japanese Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto (who planned the attack on Pearl Harbor), was actually from the 1970 movie Tora! Tora! Tora!

TripolarMan Report

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19points

Angela B 4 months ago

Tora! Tora! Tora! Great movie.

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#57

“Today I Learned”: 50 Interesting Facts About The World That Many Have Just Learned (New Posts) In the past decade, total US college enrollment has dropped by nearly 1.5 million students, or by about 7.4%.

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18points

Pittsburgh rare 4 months ago

Hardly surprising. Trades can make good money and won't drown you in debt.

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#58

The organizers of the 1985 song "We Are the World" didn't invite Madonna to participate on the recording because "they didn't think she could sing" and "it broke her heart" that that was the case.

tyrion2024 Report

Final score:

18points

Pittsburgh rare 4 months ago

They could have let her do background voices 🤣

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#59

After a week into the general run of the movie 'The Shining', Kubrick cut a scene at the end that took place in a hospital, where it's explained that Jack's body couldn't be found. The scene was physically cut out of prints by projectionists and sent back to the studio.

Final score:

17points

Pittsburgh rare 4 months ago

The version where he is frozen is better. There was only one way for him to end up after the building got its grip on him.

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#60

After the F5 tornado tore through Joplin, Missouri a rare flesh-eating fungal infection known as 'cutaneous necrotizing mucormycosis' followed, infecting 13 and ultimately killing 5.

ForSciencerino Report

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17points

🇳🇬 Asi Bassey 🇳🇬 4 months ago

As a healthy person, fungal infections aren’t that easy to ‘catch’, I wonder what made this one particularly virulent.

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#61

Virgin queen bees will release battle cries and fight to the death until only one remains in the hive.

malarky-b Report

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17points

Norm Gilmore 4 months ago

The disdain sleeted over her, tearing the planetary body of Magrat Garlick to pieces. She’d never be any good. She’d never be beautiful, intelligent, or strong. She’d never be anything at all. Self confidence? Confidence in what? The eyes of the Queen were all she could see. All she wanted to do was lose herself in them… And the ablation of Magrat Garlick roared on, tearing at the strata of her soul… …exposing the core. She bunched up a fist and hit the Queen between the eyes. There was a moment of terminal perplexity before the Queen screamed, and Magrat hit her again. Only one queen in a hive! Slash! Stab! –Terry Pratchett, “Lords and Ladies”

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#62

Up to 25% of the Caucasian population cannot process codeine properly & the medication may not have an effect at all on up to 10% of the Caucasian population.

isabelladangelo Report

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17points

clairebear 4 months ago

I am one of them, makes my pain worse. It has no effect at all on my sister,

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#63

News anchors in Turkmenistan, both men and women, were prevented from wearing any make-up after the former president discovered he was unable to tell the difference between them when presenters wore it.

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17points

Bookworm 4 months ago

Well, that sounds like a him problem. (Seriously, Last Week tonight did a whole episode a few years ago on the dictator of Turkmenistan; he's off his rocker.)

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#64

“Today I Learned”: 50 Interesting Facts About The World That Many Have Just Learned (New Posts) Kobe Bryant is the only person to have won both an Olympic medal and an Oscar.

TonahVilla , Keith Allison/flickr Report

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15points

Smol Frog 4 months ago

my brain combined them into an oscaric medal

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#65

In his will, George Washington left directions to emancipate all of the enslaved people that he owned after the death of Martha Washington. On January 1, 1801, all of the enslaved people he owned were freed. The Emancipation Proclamation was put into act on January 1, 1863, 62 years later.

Buffalo_wing_eater Report

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15points

Adam Jeff 4 months ago

Ooh what a great guy, letting the human beings he owned be free, but only after they could be of no use to him and his wife of course.

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#66

Lady Diana Spencer wanted to marry the Prince of Wales in a secret marriage but the Prime Minister got word of it from spies and prevented the union. She died at young age - in 1735.

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15points

StPaul9 4 months ago

Diana Russell, Duchess of Bedford (née Lady Diana Spencer; 31 July 1710 – 27 September 1735)

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Mom Leaves $250k Inheritance To Son, Throws A Fit When Daughter Stops Looking After Her

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#67

Peter Higg's original paper predicting the existence of the Higgs Boson was originally rejected by a scientific journal for being "of no obvious relevance to physics".

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14points

Savahax 4 months ago

Many physicist and mathematicians have been denied initially.

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#68

China does not recognize international time zones within its borders. The entire country uses China Standard Time which is aligned to Beijing Time.

ghostofcaseyjones Report

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14points

Lydsylou (she/her) 4 months ago

What even is time. Theres no physical evidence to say that today is Monday we just have to hope that someone has kept track from the first time we started naming days

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#69

The Hanoi incident where a man lived after his hand was inside a particle accelerator while it was on. This incident sparked international attention to the dangers of using foreign translated instructions in experiments involving radiation.

EnvironmentalAd1006 Report

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14points

Savahax 4 months ago

"Anatoli Petrovich Bugorski (Russian: Анатолий Петрович Бугорский; born 25 June 1942) is a Russian retired particle physicist. He is known for surviving a radiation accident in 1978, when a high-energy proton beam from a particle accelerator passed through his head.[1][2]" Da fuqq???

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#70

“Today I Learned”: 50 Interesting Facts About The World That Many Have Just Learned (New Posts) Rihanna was discovered by American producer Evan Rogers in 2003, who saw the singer performing with a girl group while he was on holiday. “The minute Rihanna walked into the room, it was like the other two girls didn’t exist,” he said.

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13points

Smol Frog 4 months ago

hope the other two girls didn't hear this

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#71

There is a scholarship at Loyola University Chicago that gives full tuition if you are Catholic and have the last name Zolp.

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13points

Lydsylou (she/her) 4 months ago

Hang on a minute I just need to change my surname and find a decent Catholic church.

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#72

Eddie Slovik is the only American soldier to be court-martialled and executed for desertion since the American Civil War.

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13points

MondoLogo 4 months ago

A 1974 movie starring Martin Sheen. He was good in it of course, and it's based on the actual historical record but is kind of slow and really depressing. If you thought Paths of Glory was interesting. this is an USA version. If you're a Martin fan who wants go beyond Apocalypse Now check out this, Badlands and the original Dead Zone, of course. https://www.tcm.com/tcmdb/title/24955/the-execution-of-private-slovik/

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#73

The 2011 film “The Worst Movie Ever!”, unintentionally, had the worst box office opening ever recorded. One single person paid admission to see the film during its premiere, earning it a whopping $11.

minikiwigeek2 Report

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13points

Michael Largey 4 months ago

The title had conviction.

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#74

Chicago reversed the flow of the Chicago River because it drained sewage into Lake Michigan where many got/get their drinking water from.

athornton Report

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13points

Daniel Atkins 4 months ago

Now what do they do with the water? Has to go somewhere. Need more Info.

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#75

In 1955 a runaway light plane took off by itself and spent 3 hours flying unpiloted over Sydney, Australia. Three separate Airforce attempts to shoot it down failed, before two Navy pilots made a successful 'kill' 5 miles offshore.

JacobAldridge Report

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13points

Andrew Read 4 months ago

No, they didn’t. All attempts to shoot down the tiger moth failed, because it was wood and fabric. They monitored the aircraft until it ran out of fuel and crashed into the sea.the navy pilots were flying seafuries and were part of the fleet air arm.

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#76

In the US only, the strength of the placebo effect is so high that medical companies have trouble getting new painkillers approved through clinical trials.

tyrion2024 Report

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12points

Ace 4 months ago

Two completely unrelated things there. Public resistance to novel OTC products due to namebrand loyalty is huge, not only in the US. I was at the dentist last week and she told me to take Dafalgan, a Swiss brand of paracetamol; (acetaminophen) in the US many people don't realise that Advil and Tylenol are just brand names of ibuprofen and paracetamol. The 'placebo' effect here is just that patients believe the brand named products are better.

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#77

The authors for “Take Me Out to the Ball Game” had never been to a ball game before putting together their now-famous song.

ZhangtheGreat Report

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12points

ConstantlyJon 4 months ago

The song was penned in 1908 by 29-year-old Jack Norworth, a Tin Pan Alley songwriter who, by his own account, had never been to a baseball game. On a New York subway train, he spotted a sign announcing: "Baseball Today—Polo Grounds." He then sketched out two verses about a girl named Katie Casey who had "baseball fever," plus the chorus we sing today. When her beau asked her to see a show, Katie answered, "Take Me Out to the Ballgame!" Lyrics in hand, Norworth asked his friend Albert Von Tilzer to write a melody; Norworth's wife, Nora Bayers, sang it on vaudeville. That same year, singer Edward Meeker recorded it for Edison Records.

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#78

13% of the U.S. Population consumes pizza on any given day. The percentage is 25% among males aged 6-19.

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12points

ConstantlyJon 4 months ago

Now do burgers.

6points

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#79

There are 16.7 million IP addresses reserved specifically for amateur HAM radio operators.

Final score:

11points

Robert T 4 months ago (edited)

So 1 class A network then.

1point

#80

The record for longest non stop run belongs to Dean Karnazes, who ran 350 miles (560 km), it took him 80 hours and 44 minutes.

ifuckingloveblondes Report

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10points

Savahax 4 months ago

I'd take the car really

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#81

One of the owners of the Arm & Hammer baking soda brand was businessman Armand Hammer. The brand was created 30 years before Hammer was born.

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9points

🇳🇬 Asi Bassey 🇳🇬 4 months ago

Arm & Hammer sounds like a nice name for a carpentry business.

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#82

In 1968, North Korea attacked a US spy ship and captured her 83 crew members. In response, the US considered a blockade of N Korean ports, airstrikes on military targets, a land attack across the demilitarized zone, and even nuclear bombardment if the crew were not released.

Kwpthrowaway2 Report

Final score:

9points

General Anaesthesia 4 months ago

There is nothing surprising about "considering" every possible option. There is nothing surprising about dismissing many of those options immediately, either.

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#83

Louisiana State Penitentiary ("Angola"), the largest maximum-security prison in the USA, has a radio station, a TV station, a magazine, a fire station, sugarcane fields, market gardens and herds of cattle and horses.

Johannes_P Report

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9points

DE Ray 4 months ago

All staffed by what is essentially slave labor in the state with an incarceration rate higher than North Korea.

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#84

In 2022 two Californians filed a class action lawsuit against Barilla pasta because they thought it was made in Italy. They argue they suffered financial harm because they would not have bought it if they knew it was made in the US. The combined total they spent was $6.

linusengel Report

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9points

Don Flynn 4 months ago

Morons

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#85

During the Truman reconstruction of the White House, a souvenir program was authorized. It allowed members of the public to order old pieces of the building such as timbers, bricks, facing stones, and paneling. Demand exceeded initial expectations and receipts exceeded expenses by $10,000.

UndyingCorn Report

Final score:

9points

TennesseeHomesteadUSA 4 months ago

Harry was OK. He called Vyacheslav Molotov an SOB...

0points

#86

Before the PB&J sandwich was invented, peanut butter was originally originally paired with savory foods like Worcestershire sauce & cheese.

Final score:

9points

Donkey boi 4 months ago

Peanut butter goes with just about any solid food, and most not so solid foods.

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#87

The most expensive error banknote is a US $20 bill with a Del Monte fruit sticker stuck to it that sold for $396K in 2021. It was discovered in 2003 when a college student got it from an ATM & sold it online for $10K. Experts believe the sticker was likely placed deliberately by a bored employee.

tyrion2024 Report

Final score:

8points

James Frail 4 months ago

This post lacks the most basic fundamental aspect of the story. The sticker was placed during production, and is therefore has the serial number printed over the sticker. As written, it just calls it an error because it has a sticker on it.

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#88

Mathematician Kurt Godel's wife Adele was employed as a dancer at a cabaret when they met. Aside from the continuing disapproval of his family, Adele faced rejection and isolation in the academic community as well, particularly when the couple settled at Princeton Institute for Advanced Study.

ubcstaffer123 Report

Final score:

8points

Khavrinen 4 months ago

I guess "Life is a Cabaret", but math isn't.

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#89

Stephen Hawking's famous wheelchair was sold at auction for almost 300,000 pounds. Hawking used this wheelchair from the end of the 1980s until the early years of the 1990s, before he became unable to use his hands to drive a wheelchair.

ubcstaffer123 Report

Final score:

8points

Beak Hookage 4 months ago

I hope whoever got it actually needs it.

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#90

Caffeine is on the NCAA Banned Substance List.

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8points

Donkey boi 4 months ago

Not the Nigeria Civil Aviation Authority...

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#91

On average, a child will be afflicted by the common cold 6-8 times per year.

lopedope42 Report

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8points

Rob Miles 4 months ago

That poor kid!

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#92

No Kill Shelters aren’t actually no kill. They save 90% of their animals to be considered no kill.

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7points

Ace 4 months ago

There comes a point for many animals where illness makes euthanasia the only humane option.

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#93

BBC interviewed a man who married a fictional girl. In 2019, 12% of people in Japan reported falling in love with anime/game characters. According to Sociologist Masahiro Yamada, the rise in pseudo relationships is due to hard work life and a dwindling pool of well paid men.

Flares117 Report

Final score:

7points

Mimi La Souris 4 months ago

and the unrealistic expectations of some

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#94

Katy Perry released her debut album "Katy Hudson" through the Red Hill Records label. The album was a commercial failure and the label soon went bankrupt.

Bessie1Vournet Report

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6points

Emma London 4 months ago

And then she went to make "I kissed a Girl" with Max Martin.

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#95

The current “land speed record” - the highest speed achieved by a person using a vehicle on land - is 763 mph. It was achieved in 1997 by Royal Air Force pilot Andy Green and has not been beaten since.

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6points

Savahax 4 months ago

Jessi Combs was the fastest woman 😔

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#96

A signed, typed letter (1983) from Steve Jobs, in which he wrote "I'm afraid I don't sign autographs", sold at auction for $478,939.

tyrion2024 Report

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6points

Mimi La Souris 4 months ago

irony

2points

#97

In 2012, Maryland manufactured and distributed a new license plate to celebrate the War of 1812. 800,000 of these plates include a link that promotes a Filipino gambling site.

Final score:

6points

Mike F 4 months ago

WTAF?

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#98

Cheddar cheese is orange because they add color from the annatto fruit.

Final score:

6points

Shark Lady 4 months ago

I've never seen orange Cheddar cheese in the UK.

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#99

During the gulf war an American F-15 dropped a bomb through an enemy helicopter that was attacking friendly forces.

GOpencyprep Report

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5points

Hugh Cookson 4 months ago

During both Gulf Wars, pilots in the RAF and other European forces were advised to let the Americans go off in front because of the US pilots trigger happy attitude. 'Friendly' fire is not a thing regardless of who's shooting at you, but it's doubly difficult when you are hit by fire from those who are supposed to be looking after your back .... My Brother was a navigator on Tornadoes during GW1, I know this because his aircraft was hit TWICE by 'friendly' fire, one of which he and his pilot had to eject into enemy territory, which was interesting (his words) plus losing a close friend who was shot out of the sky by a gung ho idiot who just fired off missiles before checking who he was firing at. His Widow didn't even get an apology.

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#100

Larry Ellison founder of oracle owns 98% of the sixth biggest Hawaiian island, Lānaʻi.

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4points

Meaghan Stewart 4 months ago

The other 2% belongs to a leper colony.

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#101

Prior to setting the 1964 and 1965 land speed records, Art Arfons bought a jet engine from a F-104 Starfighter from a scrap dealer for $600. He successfully fixed the engine and tested it by tying it to trees in his garden, despite objections from the government and his neighbors.

MajesticBread9147 Report

Final score:

3points

Beak Hookage 4 months ago (edited)

There was a guy who owned a jet engine like this, and would blast the damn thing every day with flames coming out and everything. His neighbour was of course not happy and complained to the authorities. Guy invited him over to discuss the issue, and vaporised the neighbour with it.

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#102

Henry Ford once set the world record for fastest speed achieved on land. In 1904 he drove a Ford 999 on a frozen lake and reached a speed of 91.37mph despite hitting a bump in the ice sending him airborne at one point. The record helped popularize Ford's company.

geschichte1 Report

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3points

Adam Jeff 4 months ago

Land speed record for cars, presumably. Various trains had broken 100mph by that time.

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#103

“Today I Learned”: 50 Interesting Facts About The World That Many Have Just Learned (New Posts) Steve Jobs hated Android OS so much he would spend billions to destroy it since he believed it is "stolen product".

Guest_4710 , Matthew Yohe Report

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2points

Pittsburgh rare 4 months ago

*types from a straightforward, reliable android*

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#104

“Today I Learned”: 50 Interesting Facts About The World That Many Have Just Learned (New Posts) Blackjack has a house advantage of only around 1-2% for skilled players & up to around 20% for unskilled players, while craps has a house advantage as low as less than 1% for skilled players & up to around 16% for unskilled players.

tyrion2024 , Javon Swaby/pexels Report

Final score:

1point

Libstak 4 months ago

Skilled players tend to get banned for "card counting" only suckers are welcome at casinos.

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#105

In 1969 North Korea shot down a US surveillance aircraft over the Sea of Japan, [ending] all 31 on board and that the US did not retaliate at all.

Still_There3603 Report

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-2points

Downunderdude 4 months ago

I don't think they were [ended]. I think they were [unalived].

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Justin Sandberg

I am a writer at Bored Panda. Despite being born in the US, I ended up spending most of my life in Europe, from Latvia, Austria, and Georgia to finally settling in Lithuania. At Bored Panda, you’ll find me covering topics ranging from the cat meme of the day to red flags in the workplace and really anything else. In my free time, I enjoy hiking, beating other people at board games, cooking, good books, and bad films.

I am a writer at Bored Panda. Despite being born in the US, I ended up spending most of my life in Europe, from Latvia, Austria, and Georgia to finally settling in Lithuania. At Bored Panda, you’ll find me covering topics ranging from the cat meme of the day to red flags in the workplace and really anything else. In my free time, I enjoy hiking, beating other people at board games, cooking, good books, and bad films.

Evelina Šiukšterytė

Photo Editor Assistant at Bored Panda. In 2023, Evelina graduated from the Photography Technology Studies at the Vilnius College of Technology and Design. Photography caught her eye since high school, so after 4 years of spending her free time with a camera and photographing her friends, she decided to turn her hobby into a job she likes. However, as usually happens after the studies, Evelina felt that she lost herself in photography and decided to take a break on that, but not completely abandon photography itself. Besides photography, Evelina also found another hobby - embroidery. She creates tote bags with her embroidered designs, so as you can understand, she loves arts and crafts. Also, Evelina spent all her 12 years at school with music by her side, which is still one of the most important things in her life.

Photo Editor Assistant at Bored Panda. In 2023, Evelina graduated from the Photography Technology Studies at the Vilnius College of Technology and Design. Photography caught her eye since high school, so after 4 years of spending her free time with a camera and photographing her friends, she decided to turn her hobby into a job she likes. However, as usually happens after the studies, Evelina felt that she lost herself in photography and decided to take a break on that, but not completely abandon photography itself. Besides photography, Evelina also found another hobby - embroidery. She creates tote bags with her embroidered designs, so as you can understand, she loves arts and crafts. Also, Evelina spent all her 12 years at school with music by her side, which is still one of the most important things in her life.

Ieva Pečiulytė

I'm a Visual Editor for Bored Panda. I’m also an analog collage artist. My love for images and experience in layering goes well with both creating collages by hand and working with digital images as an Editor. When I’m not using my kitchen area as an art studio I also do various experiments making my own cosmetics or brewing kombucha. When I’m not at home you would most definitely find me attending a concert or walking my dog.

I'm a Visual Editor for Bored Panda. I’m also an analog collage artist. My love for images and experience in layering goes well with both creating collages by hand and working with digital images as an Editor. When I’m not using my kitchen area as an art studio I also do various experiments making my own cosmetics or brewing kombucha. When I’m not at home you would most definitely find me attending a concert or walking my dog.

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ConstantlyJon 4 months ago

As always, take anything on TIL with a grain of salt. Welcome to the internet. Stay safe, friends.

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Bexxxx 4 months ago

Exactly, if anything piques your interest please do your own research first folks

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Doofnuts 4 months ago

I found it interesting and entertaining. (and yes, if I find something really interesting I research it)

3points

Mike F 4 months ago

Pedantic Pandas? We have em!

3points

ConstantlyJon 4 months ago

As always, take anything on TIL with a grain of salt. Welcome to the internet. Stay safe, friends.

18points

Bexxxx 4 months ago

Exactly, if anything piques your interest please do your own research first folks

4points

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Doofnuts 4 months ago

I found it interesting and entertaining. (and yes, if I find something really interesting I research it)

3points

Mike F 4 months ago

Pedantic Pandas? We have em!

3points

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