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35 Fascinating Facts That People Only Learned Now And Just Had To Share With Others (New Pics)

The world is fascinating! For example, just today we found out that people all over the world drink 2.6 billion servings of Coca-Cola every day, which is like 11,000 sodas every second. In fact, we learned this from a cool Reddit group called 'Today I Learned'.

This group has a whopping 32.7 million members who share new fascinating facts they learn every day. From quirky trivia to mind-bending revelations, you might just find some interesting insights in these posts. So, step right in and start scrolling. And don't hesitate to upvote the facts that really caught your attention!

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#1

35 Fascinating Facts That People Only Learned Now And Just Had To Share With Others (New Pics) TIL that the bees of the British Royal Family were informed of the Queen’s death and their hives were adorned with black ribbons, following old traditions of informing bees about change of ownership

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#2

35 Fascinating Facts That People Only Learned Now And Just Had To Share With Others (New Pics) TIL in ancient Egypt, under the decree of Ptolemy II, all ships visiting the city were obliged to surrender their books to the library of Alexandria and be copied. The original would be kept in the library and the copy given back to the owner.

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#3

35 Fascinating Facts That People Only Learned Now And Just Had To Share With Others (New Pics) TIL that MIT will award a Certificate in Piracy if you take archery, pistols, sailing and fencing as your required PE classes.

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#4

35 Fascinating Facts That People Only Learned Now And Just Had To Share With Others (New Pics) TIL in 1993 a fan at a Chicago Bulls game won a shot to make a basket from half court for $1million and made it. The insurance company disqualified him because he played bball in college but the team paid him themselves and years later he met Michael Jordan who told him "we made them give it to you"

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#5

35 Fascinating Facts That People Only Learned Now And Just Had To Share With Others (New Pics) TIL Svalbard, Norway is the only visa-free zone in the world. Regardless of citizenship, anyone can live and work there indefinitely.

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#6

35 Fascinating Facts That People Only Learned Now And Just Had To Share With Others (New Pics) TIL the first telephone switchboard operators were boys, but their "rude and abusive" behavior led them to be replaced by young women.

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#7

35 Fascinating Facts That People Only Learned Now And Just Had To Share With Others (New Pics) TIL that anxiety and depression can cause physical pain

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#8

35 Fascinating Facts That People Only Learned Now And Just Had To Share With Others (New Pics) TIL Abraham Lincoln was kicked in the head by a horse at age 9, almost severed a thumb with an axe, got frostbite on his feet, clubbed on the head during a robbery, had malaria and smallpox, and experienced the death of his mother, sister, and 2 sons. He suffered from melancholy(clinical depression)

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#9

35 Fascinating Facts That People Only Learned Now And Just Had To Share With Others (New Pics) TIL that in 1999, Sergio Motsoeneng ran part of the Comrades Marathon, then went into a mobile toilet to switch places with his twin brother. They won 9th place and the equivalent of about $500, but got caught when a newspaper published photos of them wearing their watches on opposite wrists.

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#10

35 Fascinating Facts That People Only Learned Now And Just Had To Share With Others (New Pics) TIL: The amount of abs you can attain is purely determined by genetics. While 6 packs are the most common, some bodybuilders such as Schwarzenegger can only attain a 4 pack. This is due to humans being born with different amounts of fascia bands. The most you can have is a 10 pack, which is rare.

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35 Fascinating Facts That People Only Learned Now And Just Had To Share With Others (New Pics) TIL In 2003, two men stole & flew a Boeing 727-223 parked at the Luanda International Airport (in Angola) and neither of them was qualified to fly the plane. The plane & the men are missing to date.

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#12

35 Fascinating Facts That People Only Learned Now And Just Had To Share With Others (New Pics) TIL Samsung created a butt shaped robot that sits on their phones to test their durability. The robot exerts 220 pounds of pressure on their phones during testing. The robot even wears jeans.

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#13

35 Fascinating Facts That People Only Learned Now And Just Had To Share With Others (New Pics) TIL A day on Venus is longer than a year on Venus. It rotates incredibly slowly on its axis, taking about 243 Earth days, while it completes an orbit around the Sun in around 225 Earth days.

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#14

35 Fascinating Facts That People Only Learned Now And Just Had To Share With Others (New Pics) TIL Breaking Bad creator Vince Gilligan had to ask fans to stop recreating a scene from the show where a pissed off Bryan Cranston throws a pizza on his roof, because the real life owner of the house was sick and tired of this happening.

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35 Fascinating Facts That People Only Learned Now And Just Had To Share With Others (New Pics) TIL ancient Greeks would irrigate battle wounds with vinegar and honey and then use spiderwebs to keep the honey in the wound

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#16

35 Fascinating Facts That People Only Learned Now And Just Had To Share With Others (New Pics) TIL: In 1562, Spanish bishop Diego de Landa burned 27 Mayan manuscripts in front of the Maya people of Maní, Yucatan. This was an attempt to erase their memories of their Gods and beliefs so that they were more easily coerced into converting to Catholicism. Today, only four Mayan manuscripts exist.

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#17

35 Fascinating Facts That People Only Learned Now And Just Had To Share With Others (New Pics) TIL the youngest person to ever be diagnosed with Alzheimer’s Disease was only 19 years old, with initial symptoms beginning at 17.

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#18

35 Fascinating Facts That People Only Learned Now And Just Had To Share With Others (New Pics) TIL in 1642, the people of New Haven, Connecticut were horrified by the birth of a "monstrous" pig with one eye. They became convinced that George Spencer, a local man with one eye, had sex with a pig and was the biological father. He was found guilty of bestiality and executed by hanging.

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#19

35 Fascinating Facts That People Only Learned Now And Just Had To Share With Others (New Pics) TIL that Irving Berlin is the only Academy Award winner in history who presented the award to themselves. He won for writing ‘White Christmas’, and declared that opening the envelope was extremely awkward. The rules were then changed to prevent this ever happening again.

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#20

35 Fascinating Facts That People Only Learned Now And Just Had To Share With Others (New Pics) TIL that at least 4 billion people across the globe wear glasses, and 75% of adults worldwide rely on some sight correction product.

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#21

35 Fascinating Facts That People Only Learned Now And Just Had To Share With Others (New Pics) TIL in 1956 Paris and Rome signed an agreement to become twin cities of each other exclusively with the statement "Only Paris is worthy of Rome; only Rome is worthy of Paris".

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#22

35 Fascinating Facts That People Only Learned Now And Just Had To Share With Others (New Pics) TIL that most airlines never use a flight number again if that flight has a fatal crash, except for American Airlines, which keeps using flight #1 despite three major crashes.

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#23

35 Fascinating Facts That People Only Learned Now And Just Had To Share With Others (New Pics) TIL that Anne Ramsey, best known for her role in Throw Mama From The Train (1987), her slurred speech was due to operations for her throat cancer and was in pain during the whole production. She was nominated for an Oscar. Sadly she died of her throat cancer 6 months after the ceremony.

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#24

35 Fascinating Facts That People Only Learned Now And Just Had To Share With Others (New Pics) TIL that Gal Gadot was five months pregnant while shooting for wonder woman. So, the costume department covered her belly with a bright green fabric that they could digitally alter in postproduction.

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#25

35 Fascinating Facts That People Only Learned Now And Just Had To Share With Others (New Pics) TIL that an estimated of 22% of all gold ever accounted for on the earth's surface came from a single plateau in South Africa called Witwatersrand.

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#26

35 Fascinating Facts That People Only Learned Now And Just Had To Share With Others (New Pics) TIL Paracetamol overdose is one of the leading causes of acute liver failure

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#27

35 Fascinating Facts That People Only Learned Now And Just Had To Share With Others (New Pics) TIL the Colorado River doesn’t make it to the ocean anymore — since 1960

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35 Fascinating Facts That People Only Learned Now And Just Had To Share With Others (New Pics) TIL about the 2010 book "Barbie: I Can Be A Computer Engineer" and that Mattell apologized for the book after extensive online criticism because Barbie had her male friends code the game she was designing and that her male friends fixed Skipper's computer that Barbie had infected with a virus

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#29

35 Fascinating Facts That People Only Learned Now And Just Had To Share With Others (New Pics) TIL the Majority of Millennials and Gen Z use subtitles when streaming TV

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#30

35 Fascinating Facts That People Only Learned Now And Just Had To Share With Others (New Pics) TIL Apollo 17 astronaut Harrison Schmitt was allergic to moon dust.

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#31

35 Fascinating Facts That People Only Learned Now And Just Had To Share With Others (New Pics) TIL Japan has a ratio of one vending machine for every 30 people.

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#32

35 Fascinating Facts That People Only Learned Now And Just Had To Share With Others (New Pics) TIL the 1 billion smokers in the world contribute to the 880,000 second hand smoke deaths each year from those that do not smoke.

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#33

35 Fascinating Facts That People Only Learned Now And Just Had To Share With Others (New Pics) TIL there are 96 bags of human waste on the moon.

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#34

35 Fascinating Facts That People Only Learned Now And Just Had To Share With Others (New Pics) TIL that honey bees are *not* endangered

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#35

35 Fascinating Facts That People Only Learned Now And Just Had To Share With Others (New Pics) TIL from WTC debris, the structural steel was bought by scrap metal industry and sold to Chinese and Indian second hand metal markets. Several buildings were built with Twin Tower steel across Indian cities, including a college and a trade centre.

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