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Every once in a while, it can be nice to feed your brain some new information, just as a snack. Whether for your own satisfaction or just some fun trivia to have on hand, it never hurts to learn more about the world that you live in. 

So here are some not-so-well-known facts from the “Today I Learned” internet group to tickle your brain. Make sure you are comfortable, perhaps get a pen and some paper to jot down the ones that seem most interesting, and be sure to upvote your favorite facts as you scroll through. And when you are done, share your thoughts and opinions in the comments section below. 

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40 Fascinating Facts That People Only Learned Now And Just Had To Share With Others (New Pics) TIL of Triboulet: a Royal jester for King Francis of France who was sentenced to death for mocking the King and Queen. King Francis allowed him to choose his method of death, to which Triboulet responded “… I ask to die from old age.” He was spared and instead banished.

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40 Fascinating Facts That People Only Learned Now And Just Had To Share With Others (New Pics) TIL that the loudness of a howler monkey is relative to the size of its testicles. Researchers found that the smaller the testicles, the louder the monkey.

ParadoxicalState , Costa Rica Wildlife Report

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Sounds like some men you meet. Compensation for something.

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One of the best fonts for interesting new facts about the world comes from insects, which tend to be a bit hard to study, as they are pretty small and interact with the world in a very different sort of manner. Ants, bees, and other hive insects are of particular interest since they approach life in a way that seems so alien to most humans.

For example, you might wonder why they are capable of such complex behavior without seemingly any language. Well, the answer lies in pheromones, which can convey a massive amount of information very quickly. Unfortunately, these insects tend to “overvalue” a pheromone over any other information, leading to comic and sometimes tragic situations. 

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40 Fascinating Facts That People Only Learned Now And Just Had To Share With Others (New Pics) TIL fairy dust was added to Peter Pan so that children wouldn't hurt themselves trying to fly when they got home from seeing the play.

FLEXXMAN33 , Francis Donkin Bedford Report

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Profits from anything to do with Peter Pan go to fund Great Ormond Street Hospital. They don't need more patients!

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40 Fascinating Facts That People Only Learned Now And Just Had To Share With Others (New Pics) TIL Spock was originally supposed to be a Martian, but Gene Roddenberry changed his home to the fictional Vulcan because he feared humans will already land on Mars during the show‘s runtime and make it look outdated

Romboteryx , NBC Report

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

The only mars we will land on in the foreseeable future is the Mars chocolate factory

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40 Fascinating Facts That People Only Learned Now And Just Had To Share With Others (New Pics) TIL elephant trunks are strong enough to lift and hold 770lbs yet precise enough to crack peanut shells without breaking the seeds

FewGuide5 , Venkat Ragavan Report

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You may have seen clips of ants running in a circle, one after another. This isn’t some strange ritual or defense mechanism, this is what is sometimes called the ring of death or “ant mill,” where the ants simply go in a circle, following the ant in front of it. Often, it leads to the death of most ants involved, as they exhaust themselves. 

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40 Fascinating Facts That People Only Learned Now And Just Had To Share With Others (New Pics) TIL that in France, bars can’t have a Happy Hour without also making non-alcoholic drinks cheaper

IB_zerbasteln , Ana Benet Report

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40 Fascinating Facts That People Only Learned Now And Just Had To Share With Others (New Pics) TIL in 2005, a sheep jumped off a cliff in Turkey and 1500 sheep followed one by one. 450 sheep died and the rest survived by landing on the soft big pile of sheep.

sanandrios , Pixabay Report

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40 Fascinating Facts That People Only Learned Now And Just Had To Share With Others (New Pics) TIL that the British sitcom Mr. Bean only consists of 15 episodes over a span of 6 years

SteO153 , wikipedia Report

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I knew that one and every time I say it to someone, they don't believe it. (yes, mr. bean comes up a lot in my life, sort of like the roman empire)

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While it may seem like a silly issue to have, the benefits of pheromones still outweigh the downsides. After all, ants are quite small, which seriously impedes their ability to perceive things. A few blades of grass and their perception of space is completely blocked. Pheromones can spread over a larger area and ignore many obstacles. 

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40 Fascinating Facts That People Only Learned Now And Just Had To Share With Others (New Pics) TIL Jaws directly contributed to a surge in shark hunting, and consequently a drop in shark populations. Peter Benchley regretted writing Jaws, "Knowing what I know now, I could never write that book today. Sharks don't target human beings, and they certainly don't hold grudges."

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Humans pose a much greater danger to sharks than vice versa

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40 Fascinating Facts That People Only Learned Now And Just Had To Share With Others (New Pics) TIL that the makers of Donkey Kong Country wanted the Kongs to be voiced by actual gorillas and spent hours recording some at a zoo, only to realize that gorillas are actually very quiet. Finding themselves without sounds to work with, they had a programmer do gorilla impressions instead.

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40 Fascinating Facts That People Only Learned Now And Just Had To Share With Others (New Pics) TIL that the Japanese have a word "Busshu-suru" which translates as "To do the Bush thing" meaning "to vomit" referring to the time when George H.W. Bush' vomited in Japan's prime minister's lap.

AerotyneInternationa , CNN Report

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Omg😂! Imagine being Bush, thinking "f**k this is embarrassing, but in a few years nobody will think about it". And now the Japanese have a new word for vomiting 😄

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Once you realize that nearly every facet of life has this sort of potential to surprise and amuse, it can be both daunting and exciting to learn more. The real problem in the 21st century is the overwhelming amount of data and information out there. Where does one even start on any given topic? A Google search won’t work, as you might end up being bludgeoned by multiple encyclopedias worth of data. 
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40 Fascinating Facts That People Only Learned Now And Just Had To Share With Others (New Pics) TIL that it took Erno Rubik, inventor of the Rubiks Cube, one month to solve his own invention.

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40 Fascinating Facts That People Only Learned Now And Just Had To Share With Others (New Pics) TIL ant corpses release a chemical when they die. A scientist once recreated this chemical and put it on a live ant. Its ant friends kept bringing it to the graveyard no matter how much it struggled to return.

ParadoxicalState , Egor Kamelev Report

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

"Bring out your dead". "But.... I'm not dead yet"! "Don't worry, you will be soon".

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40 Fascinating Facts That People Only Learned Now And Just Had To Share With Others (New Pics) TIL: A comedian formed the Union of Conscientiously Work-Shy Elements in Denmark as a joke, but he was unexpected elected with 23k votes and won a seat. His promises were better Christmas presents, the right to impotency, more renaissance furniture at IKEA, more bread for ducks, and better weather.

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Reminds me of the party "Die Partei" in Germany, which was formed as a joke project from a satirical magazine, which had no chance of succeeding because of the then-current 5% barrier to get in. To the horror of the editors, just prior the elections for the European Parliament, the voting legislation was changed, and their candidate (Martin Sonneborn, former "Titanic" editor-in-chief) suddenly had a parliament seat. While in the beginning he had planned just to alternatingly vote yes and no on every other proposal regardless the content, he later became known for his satirical speeches on right-wing politics and human rights issues.

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40 Fascinating Facts That People Only Learned Now And Just Had To Share With Others (New Pics) TIL: We domesticated the silk moth 5000 years ago for sericulture. They lost their ability to fly, lack fear of predators, & have lost native color pigments since camouflage is not useful as they only live in captivity. They're entirely dependent on humans for survival, including finding a mate.

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40 Fascinating Facts That People Only Learned Now And Just Had To Share With Others (New Pics) TIL that the reason you get chills from a fever isn't because you're physically cold. It's the brain setting your body temp higher to fight the infection and tricking your body into thinking the temperature is wrong so the chills can help increase heat.

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

To combat some potential misinformation, a fever is one of multiple ways that your body attempts to fight off infection and injury. The heat itself isn't the healing component but somewhat of a residual result of your body's immune system fighting off whatever is going on. Some other defense mechanisms are swelling and redness, like when your throat swells and you have redness in your cheeks or forehead when you have a cold or the flu. Also, use this comment as a friendly reminder to consider getting your flu shots! :)

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40 Fascinating Facts That People Only Learned Now And Just Had To Share With Others (New Pics) TIL that for centuries, numerous African populations were purported to be illiterate by European academics. In fact, they'd been using Ajami for literature and communication. Ajami adapts the Arabic script for many African languages, like Roman script is used for European ones...

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

not just ajami. There are many african scripts. See e.g. g'eez / amharic.

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TIL the smoot is a unit of measure named for Oliver R. Smoot, an MIT student who as a fraternity pledge was forced to measure the Harvard Bridge using himself as a ruler. A smoot is equal to five feet, seven inches.

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40 Fascinating Facts That People Only Learned Now And Just Had To Share With Others (New Pics) TIL that in the 2022 World Cup, Qatar became the first host nation to lose its opening match, the first host nation to lose all three of its matches, the first host nation to be eliminated from the tournament in two matches and the first host nation to have 0 points at the end of the group stage

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40 Fascinating Facts That People Only Learned Now And Just Had To Share With Others (New Pics) TIL: In 2019, a lawyer and a software developer brute force copyrighted every possible melody and entered them into public domain to insulate musicians from ‘stolen melody’ lawsuits.

windingtime , TEDx Talks Report

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Didn't work cos if you so much as fart on YouTube, you get a copyright strike

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40 Fascinating Facts That People Only Learned Now And Just Had To Share With Others (New Pics) TIL a sheep farmer in France became a national hero, wrote a best seller book and ran for president after he took his tractor and drove it through a mcdonalds as a protest because he hated what the fast food restaurant was doing to farmers.

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I had a guy drive his forklift through the drive thru (with permission from us) because the lobby was closed and his semi wouldn't fit. At a Taco Bell

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40 Fascinating Facts That People Only Learned Now And Just Had To Share With Others (New Pics) TIL people didn’t know TNT was explosive for 28 years and used it as yellow dye instead

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

TNT is a very stable explosive. It needs a pressure wave to detonate it. Unless it is banged around with excessive force, it doesn't explode. However, if it is stored incorrectly it can 'sweat'. When this happens less force is required for detonation.

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40 Fascinating Facts That People Only Learned Now And Just Had To Share With Others (New Pics) TIL about the Coastline Paradox which explains that's its impossible to accurately measure the length of a country's coastline and the more precise the measurement the greater the length becomes - to the point of infinity

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

What if someone walked with that wheel thing they measure your lawn with?

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40 Fascinating Facts That People Only Learned Now And Just Had To Share With Others (New Pics) TIL that with an estimated pay of $156,000,000 , Keanu Reeves is the highest paid actor in history for a single production since Matrix 2&3 were filmed back-to-back

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Way too much if you ask me. But knowing Keanu, he probably donated half of it to charity anyways

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40 Fascinating Facts That People Only Learned Now And Just Had To Share With Others (New Pics) TIL that the myth of carrots improving your eyesight and helping you see in the dark was WWII propaganda

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40 Fascinating Facts That People Only Learned Now And Just Had To Share With Others (New Pics) TIL Hawaii is considered the bird extinction capital of the world - Since humans arrived, 95 of 142 bird species found nowhere else in the world have become extinct in Hawaii

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

For anyone wondering why, it's a cocktail of reasons, all related to humans. Water used as ballast on ships was released, and it contained mosquito larvae infected with avian diseases. Rats hopped from ships to the island and eat eggs and chicks. On Big Island, they then introduced mongoose to try and stop the rats, but the two animals have different living and sleeping patterns so they just tag team and kill the birds. James Cook brought over pigs, which have now established a feral population. They eat the ground nesting bird eggs and chicks, as well as destroying native plant life and making muddy hollows where the mosquitos thrive.

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40 Fascinating Facts That People Only Learned Now And Just Had To Share With Others (New Pics) TIL that when Andre the giant passed away there was no crematorium large enough in France so his body had to be flown to America

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40 Fascinating Facts That People Only Learned Now And Just Had To Share With Others (New Pics) TIL that court dwarfs were strategically positioned next to the king or queen during public appearances and ceremonies, which, due to their small stature, had the effect of visually enhancing the monarch's presence. They were owned, traded, and delivered as gifts to kings and queens.

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40 Fascinating Facts That People Only Learned Now And Just Had To Share With Others (New Pics) TIL that, over the course of their lifetime, 1 in 10 Icelanders will publish a book.

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

in a country with no trees, so all paper is imported. Maybe someone could write a book about that.

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40 Fascinating Facts That People Only Learned Now And Just Had To Share With Others (New Pics) TIL that in 1947 Canada raised the price of chocolate bars from 5¢ to 8¢ without much notice. Children protested against this 62.5% increase throughout the country, and approximately 200 stormed the legislature building of British Columbia.

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Nitpick: Canada didn't raise the price (implying the government, taxes or so) but Canadian manufacturers raised the price. That sounds like cartels, but that's another investigation.

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TIL, female elephants in Mozambique are rapidly evolving to not have tusks due to poachers.

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

They are not evolving. There is no genetic change. Humans are simply eliminating the ones with tusks. It's not gaining elephants without tusks, those genes must already exist, or they couldn't be born, it's LOSING elephants with larger tusks. We are making the gene pool smaller.

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TIL: After an IVF mix up, 2 mothers gave birth to each other's babies. Four months after giving birth, the California families swapped babies to return the children to their rightful parents.

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Yikes. What an ethical dilemma. Which child is yours- your DNA or the flesh and blood that you carried for 9 months, birthed, fed, and loved. I hope that the families are close because they are practical family now.

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TIL that when U.S. General George S. Patton died in late 1945, the French government offered to bury him beside Napoleon in Paris out of gratitude for his role in the liberation of France and western Europe.

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

There are some generals buried next to Napoleon: Foch, Turenne, Vauban....

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TIL there is an IQ floor (80 points) to serve in the US Armed Forces and this requirement was relaxed during the Vietnam war. These people died at 5 times the rate of other Americans in the war.

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Wow. There's an IQ floor to serve in the forces but not to serve in Congress. Perhaps there should be? Precedent has been set!!

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40 Fascinating Facts That People Only Learned Now And Just Had To Share With Others (New Pics) TIL that Scotland has over 30,000 lochs but only 1 lake.

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Loch is the Irish, Scottish Gaelic and Scots word for a lake or sea inlet

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TIL a territorial loophole created a de facto lawless piece of land between the Dutch and Belgian border. This area became known for hosting illegal raves, drug deals and prostitution. The loophole was closed in 2018 after a headless corpse was found there.

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TIL that the oxygen for emergency masks on planes does not come from tanks, but instead from a chemical reaction

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

The oxygen is generated by a simple chemical reaction that occurs when you pull on the mask. There is a so-called oxygen candle above your head. When you pull on your mask, a firing pin releases. Then, sodium chlorate and potassium perchlorate are combined in the candle to create oxygen.

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TIL There existed a Roman Emperor whose face appears on just 2 ancient coins and we otherwise know absolutely nothing about

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40 Fascinating Facts That People Only Learned Now And Just Had To Share With Others (New Pics) Today I learned that President Glover Cleveland had a secret surgery removing a tumor in his mouth on a yacht because he worried that news of him having cancer would effect the stock market.

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40 Fascinating Facts That People Only Learned Now And Just Had To Share With Others (New Pics) TIL that Jim Carrey was paid $7 million for ''Dumb and Dumber'', while his co-star Jeff Daniels made just $50,000

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TIL that from 1988 to 1998, Wendy's had a buffet called the Superbar which served Mexican food, pasta, salad, and fruit.

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TIL people who were born blind use their visual cortex to solve math problems

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Today (literally today) I learnt that between 1941 and 1954, some 12,000 premature babies, most of them in the USA, were blinded by inappropriate neonatal care in hospitals. The babies had been given extra oxygen in their cribs which caused Retrolental Fibroplasia. Stevie Wonder was one of the victims. This was a worse disaster than Thalidomide.

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TIL Beethoven admired Napoleon and the French Revolution. When Napoleon crowned himself emperor in 1804 Beethoven broke into a rage denouncing him, saying "He lowered himself to the level of an ordinary king."

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40 Fascinating Facts That People Only Learned Now And Just Had To Share With Others (New Pics) TIL that people of normal weight with the apple body shape are at higher risk of death than overweight or obese people with pear or hourglass shaped bodies

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I want a waist!!! So jealous of other shapes. I'm only approx 80 kgs but look pudgier as I have no shape. But I am from the Apple Isle!

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TIL That Robert Todd Lincoln, Abraham Lincoln's eldest son, was close to or directly at all three presidential assassinations that happened during his life time. He swore off presidential events as a result fearing his presence meant a president would die.

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

And his life was saved by being pulled out of the path of an oncoming train by Edwin Booth, John Wilkes Booth's brother.

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TIL Jane Kaczmarek was nominated by the Emmys for her portrayal of Lois in Malcolm in the Middle seven consecutive years - the entire run of the show - and never won.

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40 Fascinating Facts That People Only Learned Now And Just Had To Share With Others (New Pics) TIL that when Edwin Hunter McFarland could not fit all letters into the first Thai typewriter, he left out two consonants, which eventually led to their becoming obsolete.

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TIL when the skeleton of Richard III was unearthed, it was mistakenly announced that they found an arrowhead in his spine, when this later turned out to be a nail from the Roman era that coincidentally happened to be in the soil.

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

'What we do, see, is replace an arrowhead with this old Roman nail, and shoot him with that. If anyone investigates, they'll pin it on the Romans. Genius, huh?'

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TIL Beethoven’s cause of death is not known. The composer was sick throughout his life, & before dying sent a letter asking for doctors to investigate him. Researchers recently sequenced his D.N.A. to see what they could find out.

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

From Wikipedia: The latest study suggests that Beethoven probably died from liver disease brought on by a combination of viral hepatitis, alcohol consumption and genetic factors

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TIL that in 1966 the glass roof of the Houston Astrodome was painted to reduce glare. However, this reduced the amount of sunlight in the stadium and most of the grass died. A synthetic grass surface called ChemGrass was installed in its place, and Astroturf got its name.

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

More plastic and more pollution for a completely futile and useless product. If only there was a natural alternative..

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#51

TIL about the Battle of Hodów, where 400 Polish Soldiers managed to defeat around 40,000 Troops of the Crimean Khanate.

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

"Even after the Poles ran out of bullets, they continued to fire at the enemy, using Tatar arrowheads as improvised ammunition for their guns." (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Hod%C3%B3w)

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40 Fascinating Facts That People Only Learned Now And Just Had To Share With Others (New Pics) TIL that Wyoming spends $136,000 on each prison inmate annually, while Mississippi spends $18,410. The average state spends $45,771.

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Note, this is higher than what is spent per student for primary, secondary or higher education on average.

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40 Fascinating Facts That People Only Learned Now And Just Had To Share With Others (New Pics) TIL: Family Members Scattering Dead Relative's Ashes On Disney World Rides Is A "Common Occurrence" Especially on the The Haunted Mansion ride.

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Did you hear about the guy who, after his death, had his remains scattered at Disney World. Scary thing was, he wasn't cremated.

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#54

TIL President Nixon had a personal valet, Manolo Sanchez, whom he was so close and depended on the two developed a constructed language "sometimes using words that only the two of them understood".

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TIL of Harada Sanosuke, an Edo period Samurai who was once ridiculed for not knowing how to properly commit seppuku. To prove his critic wrong, he drew his sword and attempted seppuku on the spot, but ended up surviving as the wound was too shallow.

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

EMPEROR : your failure has brought disgrace and shame restore your honor by seppuku SAMURAI: *survives again*

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TIL there is no such thing as a chemical that changes pool water color on contact with urine

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Perhaps, but don't pee in the pool after you've eaten a lot of beets or dragon fruit.

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40 Fascinating Facts That People Only Learned Now And Just Had To Share With Others (New Pics) TIL tortillas are a prohibited item at Sun Devil Stadium (Arizona State University). Possession of tortillas within the stadium can be a cause for removal without a refund.

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TIL: That during the Apollo 11 moon landing, Neil Armstrong was the only one operating the Hasselbad camera and almost all pictures he took were of Buzz Aldrin, NASA could only find 1 picture of Armstrong taken by Aldrin (who was busy with experiments) on that fateful day

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

the brand is Hasselblad, not Hasselbad. It's a Swedish camera brand named after its founders. The name translates to hazel leaf

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TIL the physical virginity of Jesus' mother was so important in the Middle Ages, paintings depicted Mary getting pregnant through her ear with a beam of light from the Holy Ghost.

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

And the virginity part comes from a mistranslation. In the old Greek she is a young woman, parthenos, but when translated to Latin, and Hebrew, and back to Greek and then to modern languages, one of the translators hadn't a word for a young woman except as a virgin. So... And then the Catholic Church just accepted the mistranslation, bc it had been that way so long, no one would admit to it being a mistake. Hallelujah for the old catholic church...

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TIL three of the richest counties in the US are Washington DC suburbs

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

And the others are in NY or Ca, what a surprise. You were expecting rural Kansas counties?

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40 Fascinating Facts That People Only Learned Now And Just Had To Share With Others (New Pics) TIL that Montana is the only U.S. state that has no statewide restrictions on cell phone use while driving.

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

It's not very densely populated so you're probably more likely to hit a sheep

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TIL that Apple's infamous "1984" ad for the Macintosh computer was secretly aired once on local television in Twin Falls, Idaho in December 1983, a month before its national premier during Super Bowl XVIII. This allowed it to qualify for the 1984 Clio advertising awards.

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