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If you browse Reddit, the chances are you will end up on its powerhouse called Today I Learned. And it's not a powerhouse for no reason, trust me.

TIL is home to 27.3 million members who enjoy pumping their trivia muscle and coming to the subreddit to recharge their memory banks.

Created back in December 28, 2008, the community has become a destination for daily tidbits of knowledge and interesting facts. The best part, TIL is basically a never-ending stream of wisdom goodness, so if you ever have a spare moment to kill or simply need some cool things nobody knows to impress your date, TIL facts make for lightyears of scrolling. So in case you feel adventurous, more Today I Learned facts await here, here and here.

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50 New ‘Today I Learned’ Facts That Prove It’s Never Too Late To Learn Something New TIL in 1818, the US began building a fort near the New York-Quebec border to defend against invasions from Canada. After two years of construction, they realized the fort was actually on the Canadian side. They abandoned it and named it Fort Blunder.

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    50 New ‘Today I Learned’ Facts That Prove It’s Never Too Late To Learn Something New TIL that in 1950 in Beatrice, NE, a church exploded five minutes after choir practice started. No one was hurt because every single member of the choir was late for completely separate reasons, so the church was empty.

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    50 New ‘Today I Learned’ Facts That Prove It’s Never Too Late To Learn Something New TIL during a financial crisis in 1720, the British parliament debated a resolution for bankers to be sewn into sacks with snakes and dumped into the Thames river.

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

    I've already claimed the concession rights the last time this was posted.

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    50 New ‘Today I Learned’ Facts That Prove It’s Never Too Late To Learn Something New TIL Keeping cats on ships has been a long held seafaring tradition due to their efficiency as a form of pest control and the supposed luck they brought to vessels. It is thought that cats were spread around the world by groups such as the Ancient Egyptians, Vikings, and Age of Discovery explorers.

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

    And thought of as the real reason the Dodo was wiped out. Between the cats, killing the birds and rats eating the eggs.

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    50 New ‘Today I Learned’ Facts That Prove It’s Never Too Late To Learn Something New TIL that Charles Darwin often gave his old papers to his children for them to doodle on. Thus, much of what survives of his original Origin of Species manuscript represents the best of his children's writing and drawings, rather than the best of his work.

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

    One of his notebooks was stolen from Cambridge library and has only just been returned with a note saying ‘Librarian…. Happy Easter’ 22 years after being stolen! https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-60980288.amp

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    50 New ‘Today I Learned’ Facts That Prove It’s Never Too Late To Learn Something New TIL in 1952, a bus driver (Albert Gunter) was driving over Tower Bridge, when to his surprise, the bridge started opening. The double - decker bus was at the edge of the south bascule when it started rising. He made a split decision and accelerated clearing the 6ft drop. Later receiving a £10 bonus.

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    50 New ‘Today I Learned’ Facts That Prove It’s Never Too Late To Learn Something New TIL that Stan Lee had a younger brother, Larry, who co-created Thor, Iron Man, and Ant-Man. Larry Lieber is currently 90 years old and only retired from pencilling comics in 2018.

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    50 New ‘Today I Learned’ Facts That Prove It’s Never Too Late To Learn Something New TIL that (former) Dutch footballer Dennis Bergkamp is afraid of flying to the point that he would take car/ferry/train to away games, or not travel at all. His Aviophobia gave him the nickname of the "Non-Flying Dutchman".

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    50 New ‘Today I Learned’ Facts That Prove It’s Never Too Late To Learn Something New TIL in Egypt, around 17000 divorce cases in 2018 cited "Candy Crush" as the cause of divorce.

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

    I read "around 1700" and thought that candy crush had divorced them in 1700. me is dum

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    50 New ‘Today I Learned’ Facts That Prove It’s Never Too Late To Learn Something New TIL there are 13 remaining secret apartments on the top floors of New York City’s branch libraries.

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    2 years ago

    HOW MUCH

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

    An arm, a leg, and the blood of your first born

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

    There are a number of articles about them; they were built for caretakers, at a time when furnaces needed regular manual stoking and so on. This is one of my favorite articles about them: https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/inside-the-new-york-public-librarys-last-secret-apartments

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

    Nertz! Try this: https://www.6sqft.com/life-behind-the-stacks-the-secret-apartments-of-new-york-libraries/

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

    They’re not the only unoccupied properties in major cities, either. Many foreign “investors”(aka money launderers) bought houses and apartments and never occupied them, and never intended to. There should be some kind of deal the cities can make with these absentee owners to rent out their properties—-at reasonable rent-controlled rent amounts that represent no more than 30% of a 99 percenter-level salary—-to keep them occupied and not at risk of falling into disrepair from neglect. The renters pay the city and the city pays the owners, let’s say, 70% of the rent amount. Everyone’s happy. There are decent homes in town for hardworking renters, and steady income for both cities and owners.

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

    These foreign owners of unoccupied properties are using them as tax havens or for money laundering. They can't rent them out or they would be developing real income that would only complicate their scams.

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

    Would love to see pics of the apartments (which would probably be listed in the millions today)

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

    I work at one of these libraries. The apartment is empty and has old peeling paint. It's very spacious (3 bedrooms) and very quiet, even though the neighborhood is quite noisy. I like taking my lunch breaks there (nap or read). One of the perks of this job :). The public has no access to these because of ADA laws/ no elevator.

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

    Sounds great, but the noise complaints would be abundant. The library in my NYC high school was hardcore. It had sign that said SHUT THE F**K UP!

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

    I wish I was in a secret apartment right now. Above a library. Living like a phantom of the opera. Maybe with a mask.

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

    https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/inside-the-new-york-public-librarys-last-secret-apartments They are not in good shape.

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

    I've seen pictures of a few. To call them appartments is a bit of an exaggeration, because you wouldn't be able to live in them, by today's standards. It's a couple of small, derelict rooms where custodians used to live - very primitively.

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

    Not all of them. The one in my library is a spacious 3 bedroom one with a huge kitchen and outdoor space. It's very bright and still heated. Electricity and paint job would be a minimal upgrade.

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

    SOOOOOO !! What are THEY doing with them ? Why are they empty ? The income ??

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

    And there are approximately 13 million homeless people in New York

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

    I would love one, if only they weren't in New York City. On the other hand, they're over a library....

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

    Are there any books set in one of these apartments? If not, there should be.

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

    No, thanks. The idea is cool, but there's no way I would ever want to live in NYC. Nope, no way, never.

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

    Who lives in them?

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

    Nobody now. They're empty. The building custodian used to live there with his family when the old furnace needed to be tended to 24/7. Ever since the furnace technology moved to full electric (not coal), the apartments have been abandoned.

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

    When can I move in? And do you get round the clock access to the library?

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    50 New ‘Today I Learned’ Facts That Prove It’s Never Too Late To Learn Something New TIL that two 16-year-olds got lost in the Canadian wilderness while snowboarding, but were able to stay warm by burning their homework. The two boys were rescued the following day and managed to avoid frostbite, sustaining only minor injuries.

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    50 New ‘Today I Learned’ Facts That Prove It’s Never Too Late To Learn Something New TIL cheetahs were at one point so close to extinction, their genetic diversity has become too low for their immune system to recognize a "nonself". Skin grafts exchanged between unrelated cheetahs are accepted as if they were clones or identical twins.

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

    I think the stimation is that they went as low as having only 7 fertile individuals at some point. (Plus old ones and cubs)

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    50 New ‘Today I Learned’ Facts That Prove It’s Never Too Late To Learn Something New TIL John von Neumann regularly recalled complete novels and pages of the phone directory. He could divide two 8-digit numbers in his head and converse in Ancient Greek at age 6, and was proficient in calculus at age 8. When he enrolled in university at 16, he had already written a research paper.

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    50 New ‘Today I Learned’ Facts That Prove It’s Never Too Late To Learn Something New TIL that the Eurasian magpie is one of the most intelligent birds, and one of the most intelligent of all non-human animals. The expansion of its nidopallium is approx. the same in its relative size as the brain of humans. It is the only bird known to pass the mirror test.

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

    Corvids are really smart. They are also capable not only to make amd use tools (other birds can) but to make/use tools in order to retrieve a second tool needed to solve a puzzle. That is really complex thinking.

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    50 New ‘Today I Learned’ Facts That Prove It’s Never Too Late To Learn Something New TIL In 1924, the federal government funded enormous concrete arrows to be built every 10 miles or so along established airmail routes to help the pilots trace their way across America in bad weather conditions and particularly at night, which was a more efficient time to fly.

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    50 New ‘Today I Learned’ Facts That Prove It’s Never Too Late To Learn Something New TIL the hit version of “Tom’s Diner” was remixed by the group DNA and circulated to clubs without the permission of the artist Suzanne Vega or her label. When Vega heard the remix, she advised the label to buy it and officially release it rather than sue the group for copyright infringement.

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

    I bet she made a lot more money than she would have without it. She wasn't a super well-known artist, though she has a pretty prolific career. Some people still think she was just a one-hit wonder.

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    50 New ‘Today I Learned’ Facts That Prove It’s Never Too Late To Learn Something New TIL Aurora Rodríguez Carballeira wanted to have a perfect daughter. Her daughter Hildegart read at 2, spoke 4 languages at 8, joined law school at 13, becoming professor there at 18, writing on socialism and sexuality, writing to figures. On 1933 her mother shot her.

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

    Mother was later diagnosed a paranoid schizophrenic. Her 18 year old daughter was growing distant, mother thought she was falling in love and so...

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    50 New ‘Today I Learned’ Facts That Prove It’s Never Too Late To Learn Something New TIL that the "lower bar" on women's bikes is antiquated and was created to accommodate the heavy dresses women wore in the late 1800s.

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

    Its wonderful and should be the standard. I never wear skirts but when i was still cycling i had a lot of trouble using "mens" bikes. Just put the low bar for everybody! It serves no purpose now that materials are stronger. Many mountain bikes have a small bar but much lower than the traditional ones. Also you can get hurt with the bar if you get hit.

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    50 New ‘Today I Learned’ Facts That Prove It’s Never Too Late To Learn Something New TIL, that Lieutenant Elmo Zumwalt III contracted cancer and died at 42, after getting exposed to Agent Orange while deployed in Vietnam. It was his father, Admiral Elmo Zumwalt who ordered the use of Agent Orange in Vietnam.

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    50 New ‘Today I Learned’ Facts That Prove It’s Never Too Late To Learn Something New TIL English is not an official language of New Zealand despite it being spoken by 90% of the population. The two official languages are Te reo Māori and NZ sign language.

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    50 New ‘Today I Learned’ Facts That Prove It’s Never Too Late To Learn Something New TIL that a 4-year-old was arrested for witchcraft during the Salem Witch Trials. Little Dorothy Good spent 10 months chained in a prison cell after confessing to a local judge that she had a pet snake that could talk.

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

    Humans are the worst. I cannot express how horrified I am thinking about that girl.

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    50 New ‘Today I Learned’ Facts That Prove It’s Never Too Late To Learn Something New TIL that in the 4th century CE, Roman bishop Acacius of Amida sold the all church's treasures to free 7000 Persian prisoners captured by the Romans during war. The Persian emperor was so impressed by the act that he ordered an end to Christian persecution throughout his empire.

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

    TIL that the sculpture here presents St Adalbert, it can be seen in Prague in St Adalbert's chaple, and that image sof Acacius of Amida are widely accesible in the Internet...

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    50 New ‘Today I Learned’ Facts That Prove It’s Never Too Late To Learn Something New TIL that the crust of the Earth is so thin, that it makes up 1% of the earth's volume that contains all known life in the universe and can be compared with a peel of an apple.

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

    Yet it's too deep to drill past. The thinnest part is 3 miles, but is at the bottom of the Atlantic Ocean. The deepest drill was about 6 miles, but was not even close to the mantle. Frankly, we really SHOULDN'T drill past the crust!

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    50 New ‘Today I Learned’ Facts That Prove It’s Never Too Late To Learn Something New TIL F1 driver Kimi Raikkonen nearly bankrupted his Lotus team. They put a €50k bonus per point in his contract thinking they wouldn't score many, Kimi scored 390 in two years including 15 podiums and 2 race wins.

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    50 New ‘Today I Learned’ Facts That Prove It’s Never Too Late To Learn Something New TIL Cancun was founded by the Mexican government using computer models to find a nice spot for tourists.

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    50 New ‘Today I Learned’ Facts That Prove It’s Never Too Late To Learn Something New TIL Philadelphia Cream Cheese was invented in New York and has never been made in Philadelphia. Its name was part of a clever marketing strategy, because at the time (1880s) Philadelphia was known for its high quality dairy.

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

    There is a small town in New York named Philadelphia. They claim ownership.

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    50 New ‘Today I Learned’ Facts That Prove It’s Never Too Late To Learn Something New TIL of the "Boring Billion". From roughly 1.8 billion BC to 0.8 billion BC, relatively nothing happened on earth. There was tectonic stability, a static climate, and hardly any biological evolution. It has been termed "The Dullest Time in Earth's History"

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    50 New ‘Today I Learned’ Facts That Prove It’s Never Too Late To Learn Something New TIL that Sesame Street was initially banned in several states, such as Mississippi, for casting black and hispanic actors.

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

    Won't be long before Sesame street will be banned again in several states for the exact same reason and some more.

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    50 New ‘Today I Learned’ Facts That Prove It’s Never Too Late To Learn Something New TIL Scooby Doo was designed by Iwao Takamoto, who first learned illustration from fellow prisoners in the Manzanar concentration camp for Japanese-Americans.

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

    Read George Takai's autobiographical graphic novel--They Called us Enemy.

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    50 New ‘Today I Learned’ Facts That Prove It’s Never Too Late To Learn Something New TIL the IRS still operates largely on mainframe computers running 60 year old code.

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    50 New ‘Today I Learned’ Facts That Prove It’s Never Too Late To Learn Something New TIL of 'Truck Wages' or 'Company Scrip, where an employer will pay employees in company minted money that is only redeemable in company owned stores. It is referenced in the sea shanty 'Wellerman' and the last company to get sued for using it was Walmart Mexico.

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    50 New ‘Today I Learned’ Facts That Prove It’s Never Too Late To Learn Something New TIL of the Octomom case of 2009, where a single mom was implanted with 12 embryos and gave birth to 8 babies (octuplets). They are currently the longest surviving octuplets ever. Ultimately her fertility doctor had his license revoked.

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    50 New ‘Today I Learned’ Facts That Prove It’s Never Too Late To Learn Something New IL of Audie Murphy, an American soldier from World War II that earned every military combat med offered by the U.S Army, including the Medal of Honor at age 19. He also won medals from France and Belgium.

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

    Then had an acting career after the war. Died at 43 in a plane crash. His wife worked at my VA clinic until 2005.

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    50 New ‘Today I Learned’ Facts That Prove It’s Never Too Late To Learn Something New TIL that since 2004 at least 18 have people died from contracting rabies after receiving organs from infected donors. Transplanted organs are not typically screened for rabies virus, which can incubate for up to a year or more before symptoms manifest, after which time it is nearly 100% fatal.

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

    But we're [sort of] moving forward with medical work. I think.

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    50 New ‘Today I Learned’ Facts That Prove It’s Never Too Late To Learn Something New TIL that there is a strong positive correlation between how fast someone walks and the population of the city that they're from. If a city is 10x larger than another, people will walk 24% faster on average.

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

    I walk really quickly because I used to wait tables. For 12 years, I walked as quickly as possible for up to 8 hours a day. I have been out of the business for ten years, but I can’t shake the habit.

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    50 New ‘Today I Learned’ Facts That Prove It’s Never Too Late To Learn Something New TIL that Aluminum was once more expensive than gold. It was a status symbol that emperor Napoleon III reserved a prized set of aluminum cutlery for special guests at banquets. Less favored guests used gold knives and forks.

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

    Need to build a time machine out of a DeLorean and go visit Napoleon with empty beer cans to trade for gold to buy more beer to get empty cans to trade for gold to buy more beer to.....

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    50 New ‘Today I Learned’ Facts That Prove It’s Never Too Late To Learn Something New TIL that while impressed by his book "Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica", the UK's science academy couldn't publish Isaac Newton's book due to being nearly bankrupt from spending all of its money printing the "History of Fish". Thankfully, scientist Edmond Halley's funded the printing.

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

    And after he financed Principia, the Royal Society (not the "UK science academy", it was the Royal Society in both cases) informed Halley that they couldn't afford his annual £50 salary due to the failure of De Historia Piscium, and so started paying his salary in unsold copies of De Historia Piscium.

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    50 New ‘Today I Learned’ Facts That Prove It’s Never Too Late To Learn Something New TIL that in the years preceding the French Revolution, the price of bread went from costing about 50% of a laborer's daily wages to about 88% of their income.

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    50 New ‘Today I Learned’ Facts That Prove It’s Never Too Late To Learn Something New TIL in 1993, college basketball coach Bob Knight invented a fictitious player named Ivan Renko to expose disreputable basketball recruiting experts. Sure enough, the "experts" began listing Renko as a prospect and some even claimed to have footage of the nonexistent player.

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    50 New ‘Today I Learned’ Facts That Prove It’s Never Too Late To Learn Something New TIL that NASA was inspired by Fritz Lang's film, 'Frau im Mond', to use a countdown for rocket launches. NASA used the countdown to not only help technicians synchronise, but also found that announcing the countdown would build suspense for those watching at home.

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    50 New ‘Today I Learned’ Facts That Prove It’s Never Too Late To Learn Something New TIL screenwriter Aaron Sorkin (A Few Good Men, The Social Network) takes six to eight showers a day to get over writer’s block. If writing isn’t going well, he takes a shower, puts on different clothes, and tries again.

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    50 New ‘Today I Learned’ Facts That Prove It’s Never Too Late To Learn Something New TIL In Space there's only 9 to 12 seconds to be conscious outside airlock and humans are totally rescuable for at least 30 seconds.

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

    And also, your body won’t explode if you go into an area with little to no pressure like inthose movies. Depending on how fast the pressure changes you may experience a very uncomfortable condition called “bends”. Divers get it when they resurface too quickly.

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    50 New ‘Today I Learned’ Facts That Prove It’s Never Too Late To Learn Something New TIL in 1323, the Mexica, founders of the Aztec Empire, asked the King of Culhuacan for his daughter, to which the King of Culhuacan agreed. The Mexica then sacrificed her and flayed her skin, and invited the King of Culhuacan to a feast, during which a Mexica priest came out wearing her flayed skin.

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    50 New ‘Today I Learned’ Facts That Prove It’s Never Too Late To Learn Something New TIL of Shi Pei Pu, a Chinese opera singer turned spy who obtained secrets from a French embassy worker for twenty years by masquerading as a woman. He even took a child and pretended it was theirs.

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

    Apparently he could turn his um sack inside out to imitate Intercourse

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    50 New ‘Today I Learned’ Facts That Prove It’s Never Too Late To Learn Something New TIL Before 2012, Pizza Hut was the largest purchaser of kale in the US, but they only used it as garnish for their salad bars.

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    50 New ‘Today I Learned’ Facts That Prove It’s Never Too Late To Learn Something New TIL that tapeworm can live inside humans for up to 30 years and grow to 80ft in size.

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    50 New ‘Today I Learned’ Facts That Prove It’s Never Too Late To Learn Something New TIL only white cars are allowed in Boracay island, Philippines. It is a municipal ordinance that was signed in 2001.

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    50 New ‘Today I Learned’ Facts That Prove It’s Never Too Late To Learn Something New TIL the most destructive single air attack in human history was the napalm bombing of Tokyo on the night of 10 March 1945 that killed around 100,000 civilians in about 3 hours.

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    50 New ‘Today I Learned’ Facts That Prove It’s Never Too Late To Learn Something New TIL that a California court ruled that a man was not entitled to the $3 billion market value of his cells, which his doctor had secretly commercialized after removing his spleen.

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    50 New ‘Today I Learned’ Facts That Prove It’s Never Too Late To Learn Something New TIL cry rooms were an amenity movie theaters had starting in the 1940s. These were small areas at the back of a theater where those with unruly kids could continue to watch the film. The presence of these rooms declined greatly by the 1970s due to the rise of multiplex theaters.

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

    It was a room in the back the width of the theater separated from the rest of the theater by a large 'picture widow' so parents could watch the movie. Yea, I'm that old

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    50 New ‘Today I Learned’ Facts That Prove It’s Never Too Late To Learn Something New TIL that Buddhists create sand mandalas only to destroy them, to teach the belief that nothing lasts forever.

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

    While in college, I had the privilege of watching Buddhist monks create a mandala from start to finish. I've never experienced something as peaceful and serene since then, and I doubt I ever will.

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    50 New ‘Today I Learned’ Facts That Prove It’s Never Too Late To Learn Something New TIL the story of the film “The Good, The Bad and The Ugly” was improvised in a meeting. After the Italian director had a meeting with American movie executives, they asked him what film he had in mind, and in the span of a couple minutes, they quickly improvised the whole entire story of the film.

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

    I read somewhere that Hank Williams used to say "if it takes you longer than 10 minutes to write a song, you're doing something wrong" and he would explain how all of his hits were written In under 10 min. Which is awesome because some of his songs are so witty n funny that it shows just how creative he was. "I'll never get out of this world alive" I mean... cmon! That's hilarious. That's my favorite hank song.

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    50 New ‘Today I Learned’ Facts That Prove It’s Never Too Late To Learn Something New TIL a man ate over 2000 meals at Six Flags Magic Mountain over seven years by spending $150 on an annual unlimited meals pass.

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

    And recently Six Flags did away with this meal plan, though they claim the man (and the viral post/news stories) had “nothing” to do with their decision XD

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    50 New ‘Today I Learned’ Facts That Prove It’s Never Too Late To Learn Something New TIL David Vogel, then-president of production at Disney, read M. Night Shyamalan's spec script for The Sixth Sense and loved it. Without corporate approval, Vogel bought the rights for $3mil. Disney then dismissed Vogel from his position. The film went on to spend 5 weeks at number one.

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    50 New ‘Today I Learned’ Facts That Prove It’s Never Too Late To Learn Something New Til ex-Miami Dolphins RD Rob Konrad swam 16 hours to shore after falling off his boat in the ocean.

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    50 New ‘Today I Learned’ Facts That Prove It’s Never Too Late To Learn Something New TIL that within the gaming industry, mobile gaming excluding advertisements ($93.2B) is worth more than PC gaming ($37.2B) and console gaming ($50.4B) combined.

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

    The mobile ads: OnlY 1% PEoplE cAn soLVe tHIss puZzle…………

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    50 New ‘Today I Learned’ Facts That Prove It’s Never Too Late To Learn Something New TIL that in 1966, Frank Sinatra threw a phone at Frederick Weisman, breaking his skull and putting him in critical condition for 48 hours. Weisman had asked Sinatra and his friends to quiet down.

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    50 New ‘Today I Learned’ Facts That Prove It’s Never Too Late To Learn Something New TIL in 2011, Jayme Gordon tried to sue Dreamworks after falsely claiming he created Kung Fu Panda. During the trial it was revealed his evidence was fabricated from a 1996 Lion King coloring book. He was sentenced to two years in prison for fraud and perjury.

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

    I’m trying to picture this “evidence”, and all I’m seeing in my head are badly crayoned drawings of pandas squeezed onto the pages in the spaces around the printed Lion King characters.

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    50 New ‘Today I Learned’ Facts That Prove It’s Never Too Late To Learn Something New TIL about the correct way to dispose of a tattered Canadian flag: unceremoniously burn it (if natural) or respectfully cut it apart colour-wise and put it in a garbage bag (if synthetic).

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

    Why would anyone care how you dispose of a flag? (rhetorical)

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    50 New ‘Today I Learned’ Facts That Prove It’s Never Too Late To Learn Something New TIL that during the Fall of Tenochtitlan, the Conquistadors were joined by thousands of native allies who resented the Aztecs.

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

    Because (unlike some people pretend) all big civilizations commited attrocities, not only the european ones. All big cultures are based on conquering, killing, raping and slaving others. The Aztecs were not a peaceful people. Not that the Spanish were, they did horrible things at the time. But they were not the only ones.

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    50 New ‘Today I Learned’ Facts That Prove It’s Never Too Late To Learn Something New TIL blood type "O" is the primary blood type among the indigenous populations of the Americas, in-particular within Central and South America populations with a frequency of nearly 100%.

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    Fun fact: it was originally called 0 (naught or zero) because it has neither A nor B antigens. But since it's hard to distinguish between 0 and O and the other three types were letters, people called it O.

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    50 New ‘Today I Learned’ Facts That Prove It’s Never Too Late To Learn Something New TIL that Texas Instruments has gone back and forth on how their calculators handle implicit multiplication with ambiguous notation, e.g. 8÷2(2+2). Different products will give different answers.

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    50 New ‘Today I Learned’ Facts That Prove It’s Never Too Late To Learn Something New TIL out of Qatar's population of 2.6 million, only the 12% have Qatari citizenship. 88% of their total population consists of expats, migrant laborers, mainly from South Asia.

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    50 New ‘Today I Learned’ Facts That Prove It’s Never Too Late To Learn Something New TIL about the U.S. military's "birth control glasses" which were a nickname for an unfortunate looking pair of issued glasses. The thick brown frames and shape were extremely unpopular and equated to birth control because of how unattractive they looked. The frames were retired in 2012.

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

    Theeee military didn't have "brown" frames in the 80s... bcgs were black plastic.

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    50 New ‘Today I Learned’ Facts That Prove It’s Never Too Late To Learn Something New TIL that Mariah Carey demanded a $50 million inconvenience fee from ex-fiancee James Packer after they broke up. She received a multimillion dollar settlement and kept her $10 million engagement ring.

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

    High maintenance. I shudder to think how much a divorce would have cost him.

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    50 New ‘Today I Learned’ Facts That Prove It’s Never Too Late To Learn Something New TIL that the ghost town of Kolmanskop, once a German, diamond-mining settlement in Namibia and one of the wealthiest cities in the world, had a hospital with the first X-Ray unit in the southern hemisphere.

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

    Which they used to scan miners after their shift to see if they had swallowed diamonds. The black workers recieved massive doses of radiation and no aftercare.

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    50 New ‘Today I Learned’ Facts That Prove It’s Never Too Late To Learn Something New TIL the Osage Orange is an anachronistic tree, which evolved to depend on extinct megafauna like mammoths and ground sloths. It survived their extinction due to its wood being good for making bows.

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

    Imma call BS on this. Osage Orange, also called Bois D'arc, spreads prolifically in areas where it is native. In the 1920s someone decided it was an ornamental plant, so it got spread well beyond its native range. They might be hard to propagate in lots of places like New York or California, but believe me when I say in western Arkansas you can't get rid of them.

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    50 New ‘Today I Learned’ Facts That Prove It’s Never Too Late To Learn Something New TIL that the left side of the ship was originally called "larboard" or the "loading side" of the ship, opposite "starboard," or the "steering side" of the ship. Because they sound too similar, the left became "port" since that was the side that was against the dock for loading.

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

    I once heard that the term "posh" came from 'Port Out, Starboard Home' meaning that fancy people had rooms on that side of the ship for better views but apparantley it is not true :(

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    50 New ‘Today I Learned’ Facts That Prove It’s Never Too Late To Learn Something New TIL that gelatin is obtained by boiling cattle and pig carcasses.

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

    Also fish (this is important for people who keep Kosher). This is why a good broth will coagulate when refrigerated.

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    50 New ‘Today I Learned’ Facts That Prove It’s Never Too Late To Learn Something New TIL In 1976, 3 men kidnapped a school bus with 26 children aboard. They then buried them alive inside a box truck to try and get a $5,000,000 ransom.

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

    According to Wikipedia: After about 16 hours underground, the driver and children dug themselves out and escaped.

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    50 New ‘Today I Learned’ Facts That Prove It’s Never Too Late To Learn Something New TIL about Tojo, the monkey mascot of a WW2 US Air Force crew who crash landed in neutral Ireland, and who became such a local hero that he was given a full Irish wake and military funeral after he succumbed to a few days of solid Irish hospitality.

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    50 New ‘Today I Learned’ Facts That Prove It’s Never Too Late To Learn Something New TIL that in December 2013 a sophomore at Harvard University sent several bomb threats through the Tor network to cancel a political history exam he was unprepared for. He succeeded, but was caught that same day.

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

    Yeah cuz he downloaded TOR the same day. On the college’s network. And now I keep imagining Joe Exotic saying “I ain’t stupid”

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    50 New ‘Today I Learned’ Facts That Prove It’s Never Too Late To Learn Something New TIL that Hidetaka Miyazaki the creator for the Dark Souls series was inspired to design its summoning based off from an experience he had when his car got stuck in the snow on a hill and a bunch of strangers came helped push his car to the top before vanishing.

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

    Then a dark spirit invaded and pushed his car off a cliff then pointed down.

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    50 New ‘Today I Learned’ Facts That Prove It’s Never Too Late To Learn Something New TIL South of the Border in South Carolina, just south of the North Carolina border, is a faux-Mexican themed tourist attraction. The mascot is a caricature of a Mexican bandido named Pedro. All South of the Border employees, regardless of race, are referred to as "Pedro".

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

    This place is a politically correct nightmare but it's still kinda fun in a 'bunch of crap you want to buy but don't really want' way. Mostly silly

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    50 New ‘Today I Learned’ Facts That Prove It’s Never Too Late To Learn Something New TIL those charities that collect 'Pop Tabs' from soda/beer cans make money via the recycling value of the metal. 23 tabs are worth 1 cent. 1lb of tabs is worth 50 cents.

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

    if that is the case, why not collect the entire can?

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    50 New ‘Today I Learned’ Facts That Prove It’s Never Too Late To Learn Something New Til in 1993 burger king briefly offered table service during dinner hours, offering popcorn as a table appetizer.

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    50 New ‘Today I Learned’ Facts That Prove It’s Never Too Late To Learn Something New TIL that after a mention that Paul McCartney liked Jelly Babies, fans started throwing them at the Beatles during live concerts. In the USA, fans started throwing jelly beans at them after mistaking them to be the same thing. One concert had to be stopped twice because the Beatles kept getting hit.

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

    And to illustrate this, here's a picture of john lennon...

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    50 New ‘Today I Learned’ Facts That Prove It’s Never Too Late To Learn Something New TIL Sony Pictures Entertainment admitted that a highly positive review written by a critic named David Manning to the 2000 American epic historical war film The Patriot, was a product of the studio’s advertising department, as the reviewer never existed.

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

    Sony at least admitted that they wrote positive reviews. Proves just once again that you can't trust anything without checking multiple sources.

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    50 New ‘Today I Learned’ Facts That Prove It’s Never Too Late To Learn Something New TIL actress Thandiwe Newton decided to correct her name in April 2021 after a 30 year long career of going by Thandie due to a misspelling in the credits of her first film.

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

    She said she wanted to reclaim her 'real' name and heritage - her first name is actually ....Melanie!

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    50 New ‘Today I Learned’ Facts That Prove It’s Never Too Late To Learn Something New TIL Tom Cruise saved the American release of 'Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels' by endorsing it at a buyer screening, launching the careers of Jason Statham, Guy Ritchie & Matthew Vaughn in the process.

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    50 New ‘Today I Learned’ Facts That Prove It’s Never Too Late To Learn Something New TIL in the 1990s, the New Jersey Nets asked the NBA to change their name to the Swamp Dragons. The league spent $500,000 to protect the name. The NBA owners voted 26-1 to approve the change. The Nets were the lone no vote, who changed their mind, infuriating then commissioner David Stern.

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    50 New ‘Today I Learned’ Facts That Prove It’s Never Too Late To Learn Something New TIL - David Lee Roth (Front Man of Van Halen in the early 80's) paid his road crew $100 for every woman they brought him backstage

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