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40 Interesting Things People Didn’t Learn At School And Decided To Share Them In This Online Group (New Pics)

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

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

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

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#1

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

holyfruits Report

Final score:

580points

80 Van 3 years ago

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

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#2

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

learnedoptimist Report

Final score:

500points

Bacony Cakes 3 years ago

You go, Ethiopia!

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#3

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

LazyFlamingosss Report

Final score:

464points

Borkin 3 years ago

good kitty!

125points

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#4

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

CockGoblinReturns Report

Final score:

415points

Raine Soo 3 years ago

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

107points

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#5

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

EtOHMartini Report

Final score:

395points

Foxxy (The Original) 3 years ago

Where's mine?

136points

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#6

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

intentsman Report

Final score:

371points

Lydia Gichia-Black 3 years ago

Shame they have to fight to get back what is rightfully theirs.

203points

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#7

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

Polar_Roid Report

Final score:

362points

James016 3 years ago

Legend

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#8

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

HoneyGlazedBadger Report

Final score:

357points

Jon S. 3 years ago

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

112points

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#9

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

Thyriel81 Report

Final score:

344points

Lauren Caswell 3 years ago

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

75points

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#10

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

KomputerIdiat Report

Final score:

333points

Paul K. Johnson 3 years ago

I'm curious how he knew who to call. Does anyone know?

89points

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#11

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

PawNoetic Report

Final score:

329points

Friday 3 years ago

Honourable men, enjoy your winnings!

136points

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#12

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

Abe_Froman_SKOC Report

Final score:

325points

Aurelia! 3 years ago

I want negotiation skills like this kid

138points

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#13

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

[deleted] Report

Final score:

324points

Paul Macdonell 3 years ago

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

32points

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#14

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

Final score:

317points

Aurelia! 3 years ago

I can't imagine, how awful!

105points

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#15

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

helmsmanfresh Report

Final score:

314points

Láďa Durchánek 3 years ago (edited)

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

482points

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#16

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

WhileFalseRepeat Report

Final score:

309points

Bacony Cakes 3 years ago

Kinda want to hear them now.

116points

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#17

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

Meme_Inhaler_Boi Report

Final score:

304points

Raine Soo 3 years ago

Terry Fox makes me proud to be Canadian.

116points

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#18

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

ZamboniJunction Report

Final score:

290points

𝖊𝖆 3 years ago

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

120points

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#19

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

WouldbeWanderer , source Report

Final score:

286points

Bacony Cakes 3 years ago

Didn't they make a movie about this?

51points

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#20

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

UnironicThatcherite Report

Final score:

284points

Aurelia! 3 years ago

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

209points

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#21

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

avgGamerRobb Report

Final score:

266points

Sasy 3 years ago

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

86points

Scagsy 3 years ago (edited)

Most politicians play it the other way around. Pretending to smart while in fact being very stupid.

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King Joffrey 3 years ago

Another example of this is Rowan Atkinson...

11points

Deson 3 years ago

Gracie Allen (Wife of George Burns) played an absolute Ditz and was very intelligent herself.

7points

Easily Excitable Panda 3 years ago

The actor who played Ernest in all the 'Ernest Goes to...' movies trained as a Shakespearean actor.

3points

Stannous Flouride 3 years ago

Suzanne Somers once asked Orson Welles (onJohnny Carson) what he said was the most interesting question _anyone_ had ever asked about "Citizen Kane."

2points

tuzdayschild 3 years ago

Well...you don't have to be.

1point

Nugget 3 years ago

Case in point, Dolph Lungren.

0points

Steve Wilson 3 years ago

Max Baer.

0points

Tinschu 3 years ago

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Mark Schilling 3 years ago

The actor who played Boss Hogg was Sorrell Booke.

10points

Andrew Gibb 3 years ago

Sacha Baron Cohen is another good example of genius playing dumb- Borat and Ali G

10points

John Fitzgerald 3 years ago

Rowan Atkinson who plays Mr Bean has an in of 178

5points

Miss Frankfurter 3 years ago

Miam Bialik (Amy Farah Fowler,) really is a neurscientist.

4points

Shirley Heyn 3 years ago

Proves you just never really know someone until you get to really know someone. :-)

1point

Pusfarm 3 years ago

He was also a guest conductor for a performance when I was in the LA Junior Philharmonic in about 1981 or 1982. Don't remember anything else about the performance but that.

1point

Kim Bush 3 years ago

Yes, he was one of the Navajo code talkers... Like in the movie Windtalkers

1point

Alphabet Soupy 3 years ago

Ironic. Wonder if the show’s fans know and accept that he was highly educated, and what they think of him. That crowd seems to be very anti-education.

1point

John Yaskowich 3 years ago

His name was Sorrell Booke

1point

Max L. 2 years ago

Roscoe P Coltrane would’ve been a great neurologist then !

0points

Bonnie Edwards 3 years ago

His wife's name was Miranda Knickerbocker.... I never thought that particular name was real.

0points

Damon Tripodi 3 years ago

again, what a terrible picture choice! are these picked by a computer with the first thing that comes up in a search?

0points

Incitatus 3 years ago

I read that on Friends they made all three actresses take an IQ test, and whoever scored the highest got to play Phoebe. Stupid or ditzy takes nuance that the unintelligent can't muster.

0points

IlovemydogShilo 3 years ago

The Actor was called Sorrell Booke. He was fluent in French, Japanese, Spanish, Russian and Italian, and said that he "fussed" with a half-dozen other languages. He served in the United States Army during the Korean War for two years as a counterintelligence officer. He graduated from Columbia at 19 in 1949, and received a Master of Fine Arts at the Yale School of Drama.

0points

IlovemydogShilo 3 years ago

It was the same with Alan Rachins when he was playing Larry (Dharma's hippie father) in the sitcom Dharma and Greg where he played a daft, clueless but lovable hippie. In real life he is a member of Mensa and has an IQ of 152.

0points

Judy Mills 3 years ago

It’s usually the super intelligent person that comes up with really stupid ideas. Why is that???

0points

backatya 3 years ago

Yea Ha

0points

Jane W. 3 years ago

Some people just get the acting bug, and that's all that makes them happy.

0points

Lisa Chambers 3 years ago

Wow. He certainly did a great job on Boss Hogg.

0points

Id row 3 years ago

Really hard to imagine Boss Hogg speaking proper English, let alone a bunch of different languages.

0points

CatWoman312 3 years ago

Elon Musk hosting SNL immediately comes to mind

0points

Miss Frankfurter 3 years ago

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0points

Lexi 3 years ago

so he did

0points

Paul Macdonell 3 years ago

A native of Buffalo !!!!

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#22

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

EtOHMartini Report

Final score:

263points

Foxxy (The Original) 3 years ago

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

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#23

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

holyfruits , wikipedia Report

Final score:

262points

James016 3 years ago

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

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#24

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

Doll_Tow_Jet-ski Report

Final score:

260points

Troux 3 years ago

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

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#25

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

inkspring , Francesco Ungaro Report

Final score:

236points

What's In Your Head? 3 years ago

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

80points

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#26

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

WigboldCrumb Report

Final score:

222points

Raine Soo 3 years ago

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

47points

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#27

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

LogicBomb69 Report

Final score:

217points

Lydia Gichia-Black 3 years ago

Man, was he an overachiever

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#28

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

BrownBirdDiaries Report

Final score:

210points

Jo Johannsen 3 years ago

Wow!

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#29

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

wattnurt Report

Final score:

204points

Lydia Gichia-Black 3 years ago

Antibody Fight Club. Who knew.

124points

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#30

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

WhileFalseRepeat Report

Final score:

204points

Lauren Caswell 3 years ago

Reminds me of Sherlock Holmes tales, the red haired man club story

38points

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#31

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

shhmurdashewrote Report

Final score:

203points

Lydia Gichia-Black 3 years ago

Sometimes you gotta shoot your shot.

70points

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#32

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

NoHandBananaNo Report

Final score:

193points

Bacony Cakes 3 years ago

One of history's greatest idiots.

126points

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#33

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

EL-PLANTAIN Report

Final score:

187points

Aurelia! 3 years ago

I wonder how they actually figured this out?

72points

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#34

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

Ambrosem123 Report

Final score:

181points

Sum Guy 3 years ago

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

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#35

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

LogicBomb69 Report

Final score:

178points

Mystery Egg 3 years ago

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

70points

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#36

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

mysteryconfidential Report

Final score:

174points

Friday 3 years ago

Oh my, that poor man

118points

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#37

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

Miskatonica Report

Final score:

168points

Aurelia! 3 years ago

Just goes to show that 'attractive' is what we decide it to be

142points

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#38

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

ZamboniJunction Report

Final score:

162points

Jeremy 3 years ago

That yeast looks high!

34points

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#39

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

Final score:

152points

Aurelia! 3 years ago

A bit ironic...

68points

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#40

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

Tangerine_Darter Report

Final score:

144points

Lydia Gichia-Black 3 years ago

Murder coverup...ya think.

17points

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#41

40 Interesting Things People Didn’t Learn At School And Decided To Share Them In This Online Group (New Pics) TIL that while filming Lawrence of Arabia, Peter O'Toole found riding camels so uncomfortable that he bought a piece of foam rubber at a local market in Jordan and added it to his saddle. Extras began to do the same, and local Bedouins nicknamed O'Toole "Father of the Sponge"

OliverTate2 Report

Final score:

60points

Raine Soo 3 years ago

If it works great, it's not stupid.

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#42

40 Interesting Things People Didn’t Learn At School And Decided To Share Them In This Online Group (New Pics) TIL in 2010 a gunman took people hostage inside the Discovery Channel HQ. His reasoning was because he hated the company's shows such as "Kate Plus 8" because they promote population growth and its environmental programming because it did little to save the planet.

SkinnyDan00 Report

Final score:

54points

Kathryn Baylis 3 years ago

Well, he did have a point.

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#43

40 Interesting Things People Didn’t Learn At School And Decided To Share Them In This Online Group (New Pics) TIL that Sonny and Cher at the lowest point of their career started a lounge act that was so depressing the audience would heckle them. Cher started heckling them back. Sonny would reprimand her and then Cher would heckle and berate Sonny. This became the basis for their TV variety show years later.

WigboldCrumb Report

Final score:

54points

Gabby M 3 years ago

Just goes to show that you should not let other people's judgment deter you from pursuing your dreams.

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#44

40 Interesting Things People Didn’t Learn At School And Decided To Share Them In This Online Group (New Pics) TIL flies find it hard to land on striped surfaces, & zebras suffer far less from flies, which carry deadly diseases. Zebra stripes are more pronounced in environments that favour horseflies

ArmpitNostril Report

Final score:

54points

chi-wei shen 3 years ago

There was an experiment with such stripes painted on cows and the number of flies on these painted cows went down by 90%.

39points

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#45

40 Interesting Things People Didn’t Learn At School And Decided To Share Them In This Online Group (New Pics) TIL that not everyone can unfocus their eyes whenever they want to. It's accomplished by having the ability to relax the ciliary muscles in your eyes, which causes them to lose their focusing powers

nekosakomako , Bacila Vlad Report

Final score:

52points

Lauren Caswell 3 years ago

I couldn't help it I did it while reading the fact! I can't roll my tongue though, don't have the right genes for that, it can't be learned

26points

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#46

40 Interesting Things People Didn’t Learn At School And Decided To Share Them In This Online Group (New Pics) TIL about one in every 1500 people have something called Voluntarily Piloerection - the ability to consciously give themselves goosebumps. The phenomenon both perplexes and intrigues neurophysiologists by defying conventional understanding of how the unconscious nervous system operates

operator139 Report

Final score:

51points

Tina B 3 years ago

Reading this gave me goosebumps... weird. Kind of like yawning.

21points

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#47

40 Interesting Things People Didn’t Learn At School And Decided To Share Them In This Online Group (New Pics) TIL that, in 2017, the British band Muse invited ticket-holders for an upcoming gig in London to vote online for 10 songs that they wanted to be added to the set list. Fans immediately flooded the poll with votes for 15-year-old B-sides and tracks that the band had never played live before

InmostJoy Report

Final score:

51points

James016 3 years ago

I hoped they honoured the requests

17points

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#48

40 Interesting Things People Didn’t Learn At School And Decided To Share Them In This Online Group (New Pics) TIL that Vietnam War medics formed the core of early EMS. Their training and experience were needed, as many first responders in the 60s were undertrained funeral home workers. So, those wounded in combat actually had a better chance of survival than those getting into car accidents in the US.

SomeGuy671 Report

Final score:

51points

WilvanderHeijden 3 years ago

Not surprising at all.

11points

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#49

40 Interesting Things People Didn’t Learn At School And Decided To Share Them In This Online Group (New Pics) Til a CIA intelligence officer working undercover in Uganda became a minor celebrity as the lead singer of a popular local band known as the "Kampala Jazz All-Stars"

delano1998 Report

Final score:

50points

Láďa Durchánek 3 years ago

Becoming a minor celebrity sounds like a great cover for an agent.

28points

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#50

40 Interesting Things People Didn’t Learn At School And Decided To Share Them In This Online Group (New Pics) TIL that Facebook conducted a study where they intentionally manipulated almost 700,000 users’ emotions without their knowledge or permission

Contrariwise2 Report

Final score:

50points

Bacony Cakes 3 years ago

What that moronic tin can does doesn't surprise me anymore.

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#51

40 Interesting Things People Didn’t Learn At School And Decided To Share Them In This Online Group (New Pics) TIL that famous anarchist Peter Kropotkin once escaped from a Russian prison, evading searchers by going to one of St. Petersburg's fanciest restaurants with his friends, where the authorities wouldn't think to look for an anarchist

Ganesha811 Report

Final score:

50points

Julie C Rose 3 years ago

Was that before or after he shot Potemkin in the Botkin? https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=pBxhpcGq4Jg

8points

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#52

40 Interesting Things People Didn’t Learn At School And Decided To Share Them In This Online Group (New Pics) TIL that a study conducted in 195 countries, over a 26-year period, concluded that there is no safe level of alcohol consumption. The researchers admitted that moderate drinking may protect against heart disease, but found that the risk of cancer and other diseases outweighs these protections

malalatargaryen Report

Final score:

48points

WilvanderHeijden 3 years ago

Isn't it strange that they only have recommended levels for things that spark joy, but there are no recommended limits for things like working hours or school meetings?

11points

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#53

40 Interesting Things People Didn’t Learn At School And Decided To Share Them In This Online Group (New Pics) Today i learned Gadaffi invited 500 Italian models to a party, only to give them an hour lecture on Islam and a copy of the Qur'an each

FuzzyIntroduction Report

Final score:

48points

Lauren Caswell 3 years ago

Did he invite Condoleezza Rice?

49points

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#54

40 Interesting Things People Didn’t Learn At School And Decided To Share Them In This Online Group (New Pics) TIL Nearly 70% of icelanders has costco membership and there's only one costco in the country

Jeremy_Martin Report

Final score:

47points

Aurelia! 3 years ago

I did not know that I needed to know this

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#55

40 Interesting Things People Didn’t Learn At School And Decided To Share Them In This Online Group (New Pics) TIL that over the last decade, there have been at least 15 cases of athletes who have died from over-hydration during sporting events. Too much fluid consumption can cause serious health issues by diluting the sodium in the blood, which creates a swelling of the brain and lungs

malalatargaryen Report

Final score:

47points

Lauren Caswell 3 years ago

A person died a few years back from this during a radio contest. They were drinking water and trying not to wee etc, and a woman got water toxicity :(

22points

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#56

40 Interesting Things People Didn’t Learn At School And Decided To Share Them In This Online Group (New Pics) TIL Independent filmmakers fled New Jersey around 1915 to California, both for the advantageous climate and to get away from Thomas Edison's Motion Picture Patent Company, who's heavy handed demands included the use of Mob thugs to demand payments on cameras, projectors and the films themselves

Polar_Roid Report

Final score:

47points

Bacony Cakes 3 years ago

Thomas Edison is a jerk.

61points

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#57

40 Interesting Things People Didn’t Learn At School And Decided To Share Them In This Online Group (New Pics) TIL Both Mozart and Michael Jackson were born the seventh child in a very musical family. Both missed out on a normal childhood, spending the entire time immersed in a punishing regime of practicing, touring and performing, all imposed by a strict father

yaboodooect Report

Final score:

47points

Lydia Gichia-Black 3 years ago

History repeats itself.

14points

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#58

40 Interesting Things People Didn’t Learn At School And Decided To Share Them In This Online Group (New Pics) TIL that between 1978 and 1980, Michel Lotito ate an entire Cessna 150 airplane piece by piece. He is estimated to have eaten nine tons of metal over his lifetime, for which he was awarded a brass plaque by the Guinness Book of World Records. (He also ate the award.)

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Final score:

46points

Mystery Egg 3 years ago

'He also ate the award' hahaha

14points

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#59

40 Interesting Things People Didn’t Learn At School And Decided To Share Them In This Online Group (New Pics) TIL of the Comanche medicine man Kwihnai Tosabitu (White Eagle), who told his warriors that his medicine made them invincible to the white man's bullets. When this medicine failed and they were massacred in the Battle of Adobe Walls in 1874, he was renamed Isatai'i (Coyote Vagina)

Cody_97K Report

Final score:

46points

Bacony Cakes 3 years ago

Imagine being such a crap person that everyone you know starts calling you "P*ssy".

21points

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#60

40 Interesting Things People Didn’t Learn At School And Decided To Share Them In This Online Group (New Pics) TIL Despite his scientific background and immeasurable contributions to promoting science to the public, Carl Sagan's nomination was rejected from the National Academy of Sciences leading to the Sagan Effect where popular scientists in the media are seen as less knowledgeable than their peers.

Braincoater Report

Final score:

45points

Kathryn Baylis 3 years ago

Sad. And ridiculous. You spend decades amazing knowledge of a subject, and just because you opt to share that knowledge with the masses, in laymen’s terms (language the average person can understand), instead of hogging it to yourself and your professional cohorts, you’re seen as less knowledgeable. I see it as part of the reason people start to doubt science. Knowledge is to be shared, not hoarded.

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#61

40 Interesting Things People Didn’t Learn At School And Decided To Share Them In This Online Group (New Pics) TIL in 1920, candy store owner Christian Kent Nelson, unable to decide between ice cream and chocolate bars, invented an ice cream brick with chocolate coating. He secured an agreement with local chocolate producer Russell C. Stover to mass-produce them under the new trademarked name "Eskimo Pie"

WouldbeWanderer Report

Final score:

44points

James016 3 years ago

They are called choc ices in the uk but don’t always have the stick.

14points

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#62

40 Interesting Things People Didn’t Learn At School And Decided To Share Them In This Online Group (New Pics) TIL that Bill Hamilton developed modern jetboats since no existing boats could navigate the shallow, fast flowing rivers of New Zealand. He took his boats to the USA for demonstrations amidst criticism from the media. In 1960 his boats became the first and only boats to travel up the grand canyon.

LogicBomb69 Report

Final score:

43points

Lydia Gichia-Black 3 years ago

Necessity is the mother of invention. And sometimes you don’t even know you need something until it’s invented.

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#63

40 Interesting Things People Didn’t Learn At School And Decided To Share Them In This Online Group (New Pics) TIL Spiders Eat Up to 800 Million Tons of Prey Each Year, nearly twice the amount by weight of meat humans consume each year.

Final score:

43points

Penelope Mays 3 years ago (edited)

nope, nope, nope, did NOT NEED TO KNOW THAT

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#64

40 Interesting Things People Didn’t Learn At School And Decided To Share Them In This Online Group (New Pics) TIL Marvel used to issue paychecks to their creatives with vouchers on the back saying that the one signing it renounced all rights to whatever they created. They couldn't sign the paycheck without also signing the voucher.

BlastproofFridge Report

Final score:

42points

Bacony Cakes 3 years ago

What jerkass motherf*ckers.

77points

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#65

40 Interesting Things People Didn’t Learn At School And Decided To Share Them In This Online Group (New Pics) TIL about "Token Suckers" - Back when the NYC subway system used tokens people called "token suckers" would jam token slots with paper and suck out the tokens with their mouth. to prevent this, some attendants would sprinkle chili powder in the slots

Stradivarius Report

Final score:

42points

Jo Johannsen 3 years ago

Eeeww!

24points

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#66

40 Interesting Things People Didn’t Learn At School And Decided To Share Them In This Online Group (New Pics) TIL that in 1978 Alice Cooper donated $27,000 to help restore the famous HOLLYWOOD sign. He sponsored an O in memory of his friend, Groucho Marx.

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Final score:

42points

Foxxy (The Original) 3 years ago

Surely that can't be Alice Cooper in the photo.

35points

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#67

40 Interesting Things People Didn’t Learn At School And Decided To Share Them In This Online Group (New Pics) TIL that the lyrics to Michael Jackson's "Smooth Criminal" were inspired by the CPR doll Resusci Anne, a dummy used to teach people how to properly perform CPR. Trainees are taught to ask "Annie, are you OK?" while performing CPR on the dummy.

derstherower Report

Final score:

42points

Lauren Caswell 3 years ago

Has anyone seen the old Dr Phil ep about the woman who is so convinced he wrote it about her she continuously tries to sue for royalties etc? It always made me wonder what the song was truly about! Annie is also the face of the woman, I forgot her name, who killed herself in roughly Victorian times, and had such a peaceful face her death mask was very popular

19points

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#68

40 Interesting Things People Didn’t Learn At School And Decided To Share Them In This Online Group (New Pics) TIL: Before he was caught, Charles Ponzi the namesake of the Ponzi scheme successfully sued a newspaper for libel and won $500,000 in damages after it suggested there was no way Ponzi could legally deliver such high returns in a short period of time

Fifth_Down Report

Final score:

40points

Lydia Gichia-Black 3 years ago

And after he was caught pretty sure the newspaper headline read: Told you so.

19points

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#69

40 Interesting Things People Didn’t Learn At School And Decided To Share Them In This Online Group (New Pics) TIL in 1851 because it was too expensive to import ice from the United States and Norway, an Australian man invented an ice-making machine and its first application, aside from making ice, was to cool beer. He was James Harrison, "the father of refrigeration"

Brutal_Deluxe Report

Final score:

40points

Friday 3 years ago

Ice Delivery Man: You've got to start charging more than a dollar a bag. We lost four more men on this expedition! Apu: If you can think of a better way to get ice, I'd like to hear it.

18points

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#70

40 Interesting Things People Didn’t Learn At School And Decided To Share Them In This Online Group (New Pics) TIL REM's song "What's the Frequency Kenneth?" is about the mugging of Dan Rather. His attacker kept repeating "Kenneth, what's the frequency?" as he kicked Rather. The case was solved when the attacker stormed NBC studios 11 years later to find out the frequency used to "beam signals to his brain".

oceanicplatform Report

Final score:

39points

Kathryn Baylis 3 years ago (edited)

So, a violent, obsessed nutcase.

15points

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#71

40 Interesting Things People Didn’t Learn At School And Decided To Share Them In This Online Group (New Pics) TIL of the Chinese submarine Changcheng 361. After disappearing while submerged, she was later found when fishermen spotted a periscope above the surface. An engine failure had suffocated the entire crew; the ghost submarine had spent ten days drifting aimlessly below the waves.

stratohornet , Naval Surface Warriors Report

Final score:

39points

Bacony Cakes 3 years ago

Why is there just a random photo of a guided missile destroyer, then?

37points

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#72

40 Interesting Things People Didn’t Learn At School And Decided To Share Them In This Online Group (New Pics) TIL That in the 1930s, the US spent $300.000 ($5,5 million adjusted for inflation) to built massive car with the goal to cross Antarctica. Only to discover upon arrival that the tyres didn't work in the snow, and the whole thing was abandoned after 140 km (driven in reverse)

ArcticBiologist Report

Final score:

39points

Bacony Cakes 3 years ago

It barely worked on asphalt roads.

12points

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#73

40 Interesting Things People Didn’t Learn At School And Decided To Share Them In This Online Group (New Pics) TIL more than six billion different knot types have been identified by mathematicians and scientists since the 1800s.

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Final score:

38points

Foxxy (The Original) 3 years ago

And I can do about 3. Do tangles count lol.

27points

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#74

40 Interesting Things People Didn’t Learn At School And Decided To Share Them In This Online Group (New Pics) TIL in 2012, Demi Lovato did an MTV documentary about her sobriety and how she overcame addiction. 5 years later, she admitted she was on cocaine while filming it

Final score:

38points

James016 3 years ago

She went off on one at a frozen yoghurt shop recently.

7points

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#75

40 Interesting Things People Didn’t Learn At School And Decided To Share Them In This Online Group (New Pics) TIL There is an exact scale replica of the Parthenon of Athens. Located in Nashville, the building was originally constructed of brick, plaster and wood slats in 1897 as part of an exhibition celebrating 100 years of Tennessee. In 1920, it was rebuilt with durable materials becoming an exact copy.

Final score:

38points

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Y T 3 years ago

But why though? I need a backstory

10points

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#76

40 Interesting Things People Didn’t Learn At School And Decided To Share Them In This Online Group (New Pics) TIL that our own stomach has to constantly secrete mucus to stop itself from being digested by our own stomach acid. Without that mucus, our stomach acid would eat through our stomach’s lining.

Stalwart9 Report

Final score:

37points

Michelle Brandt 3 years ago

I knew this one, thanks high school biology

7points

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#77

40 Interesting Things People Didn’t Learn At School And Decided To Share Them In This Online Group (New Pics) TIL that the most mass a planet can have is ~10-13x the mass of Jupiter. After this point, it's own sheer gravity begins to cause nuclear fusion and the body is classified as a brown dwarf (also called a failed star).

Final score:

37points

chi-wei shen 3 years ago

That's nuclear fusion on a very low level, much lower than in a red dwarf.

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#78

40 Interesting Things People Didn’t Learn At School And Decided To Share Them In This Online Group (New Pics) TIL that France's second-most popular sandwich is just ham, slices of butter and a baguette

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Final score:

37points

James016 3 years ago

A lot of times, simplest is best.

40points

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#79

40 Interesting Things People Didn’t Learn At School And Decided To Share Them In This Online Group (New Pics) TIL when Japan's first railway was introduced, the USA, France, and the UK bid to build the system, with the UK winning. The railways they set up were left-side running, and that was later adopted by Japanese cars. Today, Japan is one of the only non-Commonwealth countries with left-side driving

malalatargaryen Report

Final score:

36points

Eddie Fawcett 3 years ago

Thailand Non-Commonwealth, Indonesia Non-Commonwealth both drive Left Side

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#80

40 Interesting Things People Didn’t Learn At School And Decided To Share Them In This Online Group (New Pics) TIL a young Tina Fey provided voices for a pinball machine called Medieval Madness in 1997 as two princesses, the dialogue for the game was written by future 30 Rock co-star Scott Adsit

LoneRangersBand Report

Final score:

35points

Lauren Caswell 3 years ago

Now I would like to play this Tina fey pinball!

10points

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#81

40 Interesting Things People Didn’t Learn At School And Decided To Share Them In This Online Group (New Pics) TIL William Wrigley, founder of Wrigley’s Gum, invented direct mail marketing. In 1915 he mailed a pack of gum to every person in the phone directory in the United States.

Final score:

35points

ADHORTATOR 3 years ago

Great idea - How many people had a telephone ein 1915?

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#82

40 Interesting Things People Didn’t Learn At School And Decided To Share Them In This Online Group (New Pics) TIL in 1985, Takahashi Meijin (real name Takahashi Toshiyuki) became a celebrity in Japan when he managed the feat of pressing a button on a video game controller 16 times in one second on television. It's still a world record.

Mister_Silk Report

Final score:

35points

Sum Guy 3 years ago

That's very impressive... try clicking your mouse even 5 times in a second

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#83

40 Interesting Things People Didn’t Learn At School And Decided To Share Them In This Online Group (New Pics) TIL that Henry VIII was sometimes called "Old Coppernose." He issued debased coins to fund wars and one coin was mostly copper with a thin layer of silver on top. The coin had a portrait of Henry and his projecting nose caused the silver to wear off first exposing the copper underneath.

marmorset Report

Final score:

35points

Y T 3 years ago

Oh, I thought he HAD a copper nose! That was not that uncommon back then, if your nose fell off due to syphilis etc. Google it!

17points

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#84

40 Interesting Things People Didn’t Learn At School And Decided To Share Them In This Online Group (New Pics) TIL as a result of M. Rust flying a Cessna from Finland through the USSR's most secure airspace and landing in Red Square, the soviet military had its largest purge of officers since Stalin's Great Purge. As a result, Gorbachev was able to implement reforms easier, with much of the old guard gone

Nite01007 Report

Final score:

35points

Andrew Gibb 3 years ago

Rust was a bit of a d**k https://www.thisdayinaviation.com/28-may-1987/

6points

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#85

40 Interesting Things People Didn’t Learn At School And Decided To Share Them In This Online Group (New Pics) TIL that in 1949, Gallup polled Americans on what scientific advances they thought would happen by the year 1999. 88% believed cancer would be cured, and 63% believed planes would be nuclear powered. Only 15% thought a man would walk on the moon

thalesian Report

Final score:

34points

Marcellus the Third 3 years ago

What boggles me that people still think (and Gallup polls) in terms of "the disease, cancer". It's like asking "do you think mammals will go extinct the next decade?" --- yes clearly some species of mammal will, but overall humans and sheep and pigs will persist. Cancer is so clearly a family of hundreds of different diseases (with some shared mechanisms --- like mammals are!), some will get cured but not all.

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#86

40 Interesting Things People Didn’t Learn At School And Decided To Share Them In This Online Group (New Pics) TIL an Australian beer company had to change the design of its beer bootle because male jewel beetles were mating with the bottle thinking it was a female. This odd behaviour was observed in 1983 by two biologists

Dev-il_Jyu Report

Final score:

34points

Foxxy (The Original) 3 years ago

Would it have mattered so much if the bottles were disposed of correctly.

26points

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#87

40 Interesting Things People Didn’t Learn At School And Decided To Share Them In This Online Group (New Pics) TIL the FBI has a very specific definition for 'serial killer': someone who has intentionally killed at least 3 people, but not all at once. There must be so-called ‘cooling off’ periods between each murder.

Final score:

33points

Donkey boi 3 years ago

The original definition of a serial killer was a man that kills for sexual release. It was believed that all serial killers reached orgasm at the time of extinguishing a life. A few women reported their attacker reacting as thought they had climaxed, which gave them the chance to escape. The reason for the cooling off period was because the sexual frustration had to build up again. Serial killers would kill more frequently the more they killed, in the same way that the more you have sex, the more you want it. The whole definition was changed over time.

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#88

40 Interesting Things People Didn’t Learn At School And Decided To Share Them In This Online Group (New Pics) TIL every current European monarch is descended from John William Friso, Dutch Prince of Orange from 1702 to 1711

Final score:

32points

Bacony Cakes 3 years ago

Isn't that the carrot guy?

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#89

40 Interesting Things People Didn’t Learn At School And Decided To Share Them In This Online Group (New Pics) TIL that in 1970, a sniper shot a semi-trailer carrying 20 tons of TNT creating a 30' deep and 50' wide crater in the middle of the interstate

reallifepixel Report

Final score:

32points

Bacony Cakes 3 years ago

The snipers were angry at the company.

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#90

40 Interesting Things People Didn’t Learn At School And Decided To Share Them In This Online Group (New Pics) TIL a married couple was hired by the MLB from 1981-2004 to draw up each season's baseball schedule. They were responsible for scheduling 2,430 games played by 30 teams.

_partyof5_ Report

Final score:

32points

Sasy 3 years ago

Is there a particular reason why?

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#91

40 Interesting Things People Didn’t Learn At School And Decided To Share Them In This Online Group (New Pics) TIL cannabis is invasive in North America, referred to as 'feral cannabis,' 'wild marijuana,' and 'ditch weed' when it grows in the wild. Seeds can lie dormant for 7-10 years and the wild plant can damage farm equipment. Feral cannabis is cultivated in North Korea

drak0bsidian Report

Final score:

32points

Somebody Here 3 years ago

Ah yes, "cultivated in North Korea"...

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#92

40 Interesting Things People Didn’t Learn At School And Decided To Share Them In This Online Group (New Pics) TIL The intensity of sound is measured in decibels (dB), the decibel scale is logarithmic. Basically a 40dB sound is not twice as loud as 20dB one, but a hundred times louder. Also one alarm clock ringing at 70dB, two alarm clocks ringing together don’t hit 140dB on scale but measure 73dB

twoshillings Report

Final score:

31points

Luttjetrut 3 years ago (edited)

I have a very loud cat, so I measured his meowing with a dB-meter. TIL he scales between a medium and a heavy truck. The Guiness Book of Records is very welcome to contact us ;)

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#93

40 Interesting Things People Didn’t Learn At School And Decided To Share Them In This Online Group (New Pics) TIL Tchaikovsky hated to conduct by his own admission. He became obsessed with the fear that his head was going to fall off while he conducted. In 1868, when Tchaikovsky conducted his own Dances of the Hay Maidens, he held his head in place with his left hand while he conducted with his right

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30points

James016 3 years ago

His music is beautiful

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#94

40 Interesting Things People Didn’t Learn At School And Decided To Share Them In This Online Group (New Pics) TIL that Santa Fe, New Mexico is the oldest capital city in North America, founded (1607) over a decade before the Mayflower landed at Plymouth Rock (1620)

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Bacony Cakes 3 years ago

That's cool and all, but i think Tenochtitlan just MIGHT have been built a bit earlier.

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#95

40 Interesting Things People Didn’t Learn At School And Decided To Share Them In This Online Group (New Pics) TIL a school teacher named Jeff Kirby competed on Jeopardy in 1999, and then again in 2009. This is a violation of Jeopardy rules, and any winnings he earned in 2009 were nullified. He even wore the same tie

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Borkin 3 years ago

Kirby! where can i get that name!

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#96

40 Interesting Things People Didn’t Learn At School And Decided To Share Them In This Online Group (New Pics) TIL the disclaimer "the characters depicted here are fictitious and any similarity to actual persons is purely coincidental" originates from a lawsuit brought on by the wife of the man that killed Rasputin, after MGM made a movie insinuating she, the Princess of Russia, had been seduced by Rasputin

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Downunderdude 3 years ago

Ra-ra-rasputin, lover of the Russian queen. Earworm, anyone? Heh heh heh.

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#97

40 Interesting Things People Didn’t Learn At School And Decided To Share Them In This Online Group (New Pics) TIL Flea and Dave Navarro from RHCP played bass and guitar for Alanis Morrisette’s song “You Oughta Know”

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Luther von Wolfen 3 years ago

Dave Navarro is the only member of RHCP who hasn't been convicted of sexual assault and/or rape.

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#98

40 Interesting Things People Didn’t Learn At School And Decided To Share Them In This Online Group (New Pics) TIL DMX avoided a maximum jail term for tax fraud when his lawyer played his song "Slippin'" for the judge in order to show X's struggles and how bad his upbringing was.

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24points

Eslamala 3 years ago

He's dead now so who cares? Btw, lots of people have horrible upbringing and most of them don't become criminals.

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#99

40 Interesting Things People Didn’t Learn At School And Decided To Share Them In This Online Group (New Pics) TIL that Breaking Bad character Mike Ehrmantraut was created because Bob Odenkirk (Saul Goodman) was unavailable for one of the episodes of Breaking Bad as he had to shoot for How I met your mother

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Andrew Gibb 3 years ago

Mike is one of the best characters.

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I'm a Visual Editor at Bored Panda since 2017. I've searched through a multitude of images to create over 2000 diverse posts on a wide range of topics. I love memes, funny, and cute stuff, but I'm also into social issues topics. Despite my background in communication, my heart belongs to visual media, especially photography. When I'm not at my desk, you're likely to find me in the streets with my camera, checking out cool exhibitions, watching a movie at the cinema or just chilling with a coffee in a cozy place

I'm a Visual Editor at Bored Panda since 2017. I've searched through a multitude of images to create over 2000 diverse posts on a wide range of topics. I love memes, funny, and cute stuff, but I'm also into social issues topics. Despite my background in communication, my heart belongs to visual media, especially photography. When I'm not at my desk, you're likely to find me in the streets with my camera, checking out cool exhibitions, watching a movie at the cinema or just chilling with a coffee in a cozy place

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Rokas is a writer at Bored Panda with a BA in Communication. After working for a sculptor, he fell in love with visual storytelling and enjoys covering everything from TV shows (any Sopranos fans out there?) to photography. Throughout his years in Bored Panda, over 300 million people have read the posts he's written, which is probably more than he could count to.

Rokas is a writer at Bored Panda with a BA in Communication. After working for a sculptor, he fell in love with visual storytelling and enjoys covering everything from TV shows (any Sopranos fans out there?) to photography. Throughout his years in Bored Panda, over 300 million people have read the posts he's written, which is probably more than he could count to.

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Call Me Mars 3 years ago

I always love and look forward to these!!

21points

Footlong Cox 3 years ago

Just go to Reddit and read these in TIL and other subreddits that make the front page. All of these were on the front page two weeks ago.

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Theater Kid 3 years ago

Yay! Back to annoying the living hell out of anyone who happens to start a conversation with me.

10points

Nuage de Celda 3 years ago

I love the facts and the comments underneath for more details ! Can't wait for the next !

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Alphabet Soupy 3 years ago

There’s at least two “facts” missing, the one about Gadaffi and the 500 Italian models he lectured on Islam, and the one about the origins of EMS service, in which I posted a comment giving credit to Freedom House. I know these move position as they’re voted on, which is confusing but fine I guess (even though the post is labeled a list, not a poll). I don’t like that they edit and cut articles after posting them, update the headline and don’t add a disclaimer that it was edited. If they fact check after the fact, they should mention that, not just delete and hide it like it never happened.

1point

Bacony Cakes 3 years ago

Exactly.

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Damon Tripodi 3 years ago

TIL people make up fake TIL

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Marci Keesler 3 years ago

These are awesome! I want more! 😁

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jpaul 3 years ago

that was interesting

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Call Me Mars 3 years ago

I always love and look forward to these!!

21points

Footlong Cox 3 years ago

Just go to Reddit and read these in TIL and other subreddits that make the front page. All of these were on the front page two weeks ago.

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Theater Kid 3 years ago

Yay! Back to annoying the living hell out of anyone who happens to start a conversation with me.

10points

Nuage de Celda 3 years ago

I love the facts and the comments underneath for more details ! Can't wait for the next !

5points

Alphabet Soupy 3 years ago

There’s at least two “facts” missing, the one about Gadaffi and the 500 Italian models he lectured on Islam, and the one about the origins of EMS service, in which I posted a comment giving credit to Freedom House. I know these move position as they’re voted on, which is confusing but fine I guess (even though the post is labeled a list, not a poll). I don’t like that they edit and cut articles after posting them, update the headline and don’t add a disclaimer that it was edited. If they fact check after the fact, they should mention that, not just delete and hide it like it never happened.

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Bacony Cakes 3 years ago

Exactly.

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Damon Tripodi 3 years ago

TIL people make up fake TIL

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Marci Keesler 3 years ago

These are awesome! I want more! 😁

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jpaul 3 years ago

that was interesting

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