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You deserve to do something nice for yourselves today, pandas. That might include taking a long, hot bath, doing some relaxing yoga or even exercising your brain by learning something new. And if you don’t have time for a bath or a yoga mat on hand at the moment, why not take ten minutes to pick up some fascinating, fun facts?

We’ve taken another trip to one of our favorite places on the internet, the Today I Learned subreddit, to find out some information that you probably didn’t learn in school but you might still want to know! So enjoy finding out more about history, animals and even our own species, and be sure to upvote the facts that you won’t ever forget!

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People Are Sharing Uncommon Facts On ‘Today I Learned’, Here Are 40 Of The Most Interesting (New Pics) TIL about a cat named Room 8 that lived in a public school for 16 years. During his time their he would disappear during the summer and return, like clockwork on the first day of school. He became so well known that poems and songs were sung about him.

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

In 1968, in a teary farewell, students at Elysian Heights Elementary School bade goodbye to their beloved furry feline friend -- named Room 8, for the room he entered by an open window in 1952. A fixture at the school for 16 years, the celebrity gray-and-white alley cat had posed for countless pictures, including one that was emblazoned on school T-shirts. Room 8, the unofficial school mascot, became the subject of a school mural; a sculpture and several poems etched into the sidewalk in front of the school; a TV documentary called "Big Cats, Little Cats"; and a 1966 illustrated children's book called "Room 8," written by the school principal, Beverly Mason, and teacher Virginia Finley. Royalties from book and T-shirt sales went to the library fund, and a trust fund was set up in Room 8's name at the Los Angeles Orthopaedic Hospital. Students who once decorated his newly dug grave with handpicked flowers have returned to the pet cemetery over the years to say their "hellos."

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    People Are Sharing Uncommon Facts On ‘Today I Learned’, Here Are 40 Of The Most Interesting (New Pics) TIL elderly pedestrians in Singapore get more time to cross the road at traffic lights. By taping their concession card on the crosswalk button, the green man stays lit for up to 13 seconds longer.

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    People Are Sharing Uncommon Facts On ‘Today I Learned’, Here Are 40 Of The Most Interesting (New Pics) TIL Ubisoft offered to share their detailed 3D model of Notre Dame from Assassin's Creed: Unity, some 5,000 hours of research, with the French government reconstruction effort after the fire in 2019.

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

    They offered but it was declined, for a good reason : Notre Dame had already been scanned multiple times by specialists who have much more detailed and technical models of the cathedral. It’s a good gesture by Ubisoft but not really useful.

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    TIL the Kootenai Indian Tribe of Idaho and Montana harvests millions of dollars of sturgeon caviar a year, but put all the eggs back in the rivers. They are desperately try to save the shrinking white sturgeon population which they believe are “sacred messengers.”

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    People Are Sharing Uncommon Facts On ‘Today I Learned’, Here Are 40 Of The Most Interesting (New Pics) TIL : about the game "Foldit", a puzzle game about protein folding. In 2011, its gamers helped decipher a protein of a HIV-like virus, solving a scientific problem that went unsolved for 15 years in as little as 10 days.

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    People Are Sharing Uncommon Facts On ‘Today I Learned’, Here Are 40 Of The Most Interesting (New Pics) TIL Highway hypnosis, also known as white line fever, is an altered mental state in which a person can drive a car, truck, or other automobile great distances, responding to external events in the expected, safe, and correct manner with no recollection of having consciously done so.

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    People Are Sharing Uncommon Facts On ‘Today I Learned’, Here Are 40 Of The Most Interesting (New Pics) TIL that sharks don’t make sounds. Across 400-500 species, no one has ever found an organ even capable of producing sound.

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

    so they do not make that noise...? der-dunt.... der-dunt.... der-dunt.der-dunt.der-dunt..?

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    People Are Sharing Uncommon Facts On ‘Today I Learned’, Here Are 40 Of The Most Interesting (New Pics) TIL that just before Laika went into space, one of the scientists using her for testing brought her home to play with his children. Knowing that she would not survive her journey.

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

    Aww poor pup! They shouldn't have sent her in space, she died 5-7 hours after take off. She died alone and scared :(

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    People Are Sharing Uncommon Facts On ‘Today I Learned’, Here Are 40 Of The Most Interesting (New Pics) TIL in 2001, Mattel made a vibrating Harry Potter broomstick that led to many questionable Amazon user reviews. They discontinued the toy after adult stores in Times Square started selling them for twice their original retail price.

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    People Are Sharing Uncommon Facts On ‘Today I Learned’, Here Are 40 Of The Most Interesting (New Pics) TIL when Captain Francesco Schettino was asked why he abandoned the sinking Costa Concordia cruise ship in 2012 while the ship’s passengers were either dying or trying to escape, his excuse was that he accidentally fell into a lifeboat. He received 16 years in prison for his role in the incident.

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    TIL It has been scientifically proven that stroking a cat can lower one's blood pressure.

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

    but only with consent of the cat, otherwise it can raise your blood pressure when it does it flying accupuncture spinning ball of sharpness trick

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    People Are Sharing Uncommon Facts On ‘Today I Learned’, Here Are 40 Of The Most Interesting (New Pics) TIL that three years after winning gold at the 2004 Olympics, wrestler Rulon Gardner and two friends’ plane crashed into Lake Powell Utah. The three men swam an hour to the shore through 44F (7C) degree water to the shore and waited all night without shelter for rescue. All three men survived.

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

    Meanwhile I’m shivering out of my skin because I’m drinking a milkshake with the fan on

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    TIL that there is a type of octopus, an argonaut, where the male fills its sex organ with sperm, then rips it off and presents it to a female.

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    People Are Sharing Uncommon Facts On ‘Today I Learned’, Here Are 40 Of The Most Interesting (New Pics) TIL about the "Tanganyika-Laughter Epidemic". A student in 1962 in Tanzania started laughing in a school in Kashasha. The laughter quickly spread to hundreds of people, causing schools to close for months. Researchers believe it was caused by stress, social tensions. No official explanation was given.

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

    Apparently these are pretty common. Documented cases from middle ages upto to the latest one that happened in Brazil this year (2023) https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_mass_hysteria_cases

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    People Are Sharing Uncommon Facts On ‘Today I Learned’, Here Are 40 Of The Most Interesting (New Pics) TIL that, on 16 November, 1949, students in Ghent (Belgium) stormed the medieval castle, lowered the portcullis and threw fruit from the walls at the police to protest a new tax on beer. The event is still commemorated yearly by the city as the greatest student prank in its history.

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    People Are Sharing Uncommon Facts On ‘Today I Learned’, Here Are 40 Of The Most Interesting (New Pics) TIL that when Johannes Rebmann, the first European to see Mount Kilimanjaro, published his discovery in 1849, it was dismissed as a malaria-induced hallucination because it was believed that snow at this latitude was impossible. It took 12 more years for scholars to accept the mountain's existence.

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

    If the Earth were flat, cats would have knocked everything off by now.

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    TIL that not only are the mountains on Saturns moon Titan named after mountains and ranges from works J.R.R. Tolkien, but the plains are named after locations from the Dune Universe.

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    People Are Sharing Uncommon Facts On ‘Today I Learned’, Here Are 40 Of The Most Interesting (New Pics) TIL the Black Death contributed greatly to the rise of the British Pub and pub culture. Thanks to the plague, scarcity of labor greatly improved the standard of living for peasants, who in turn spent their extra money on beer.

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

    Ye (the) Olde Fighting C***s pub in the picture is in St Albans in the UK.

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    People Are Sharing Uncommon Facts On ‘Today I Learned’, Here Are 40 Of The Most Interesting (New Pics) TIL. MSG isn’t bad for you and it’s bad reputation stemmed from what’s called the Chinese Restaurant Syndrome.

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    People Are Sharing Uncommon Facts On ‘Today I Learned’, Here Are 40 Of The Most Interesting (New Pics) TIL: about Nebraska's "safe haven" law that didn't have an age limit to drop off unwanted babies. A wave of children, many teenagers with behavioral issues, were dropped off. It has since been amended.

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

    That’s both sad and funny and is a pathetic commentary on many levels of our world!

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    TIL only a slim majority of Americans realize Puerto Ricans are American citizens.

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

    And that is totally pathetic!

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

    I actually had this conversation with a racist after he made a 'they should go back to their own country' comment. He was quite surprised to hear that this IS their country, and that Puerto Rico is a US territory. (The amount of US History that's taught in public schools is criminally low, and there's no requirement to take any history class that isn't about the US. Also, the US History taught is painfully sanitized and loaded with nationalist propaganda.)

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

    TBF It's usually taught in schools. Not sure where you're getting these "facts" but it was quite required for me to take US and World history classes in public High School. These just aren't exactly the A+ students you're dealing with.

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

    I think this stems from the fact Puerto Rico sends a team to the Olympics. I remember back when Puerto Rico beat the US basketball team in the Olympics and broke their winning streak. I kept telling everyone it was ironic that they got beaten by their fellow citizens and no one caught on.

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

    More likely reasons are that Spanish is the standard language, Puerto Rico doesn't appear of most maps depicting the United States, the people there "don't look like Americans", and other reasons, mostly deplorable.

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

    They deserve representation in government.

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

    No taxation without representation!

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

    40% of Americans don't believe in evolution. 33% of millennials believe the earth is flat. 63% of young US adults don't know how many Jewish people were murdered in the Holocaust. 23% believe the Holocaust is a myth or exaggerated. ----- This is called America's brains on GQP. It ain't drugs destroying the American brain. No eggs and frying pans here. It's good ol' American Republicans screwing around with our education system. Our news. It's an epidemic of brainwashing. And it's only going to get worse unless you get involved, educate your friends & family AND VOTE BLUE.

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

    Holocaust knowledge is not based on state politics, my New York ranks as one of the lowest, just barely above Texas, while Nebraska and Idaho are among some of the highest. https://www.claimscon.org/millennial-study/

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

    My mother is Puerto Rican but she doesn't recognize herself as American.

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

    only about 6-7% of Puerto Ricans feel that way in polls. The big debate is statehood or status quo (which some like because no federal taxes).

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

    Puerto Rico do not feel bad. I was born in Albuquerque and for most of my life people asked me if I was ESL and if I used pesos. Ugh what happened to geography?

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

    A good majority of Americans can't find their home state on a map anyway so don't feel bad.

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

    Really? Didn't they study history in school? I grew up on the East Coast and had many friends who were Puerto Rican. Figured everyone knew this.

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

    I'd believe it! I've actually met U.S. citizens who think New Mexico isn't a state.

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

    I have too, whenever I tell people I love visiting New Mexico a lot of them say "wow you're brave, isn't Mexico really bad?" It blows my mind.

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

    That's because the education system in the US is f**ked, and almost useless.

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

    My hubby literally just argued this a couple of wks ago w/ his bff & had to prove when PR was claimed as a territory (late 1800s in case you're wondering).

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

    1899, to be precise, as a result of the Treaty of Paris that ended the Spanish-American War. Guam and the Philippines also became US territories under this treaty.

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

    They need to make it a state.

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

    Why are American flag manufacturers not lobbying for this? They would make a fortune

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

    Not just Americans… they are the fun Americans! Every Puerto Rican friend I have and hang around has never let me down on making sure it was interesting.

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

    Allow me to introduce myself, I'm an uninteresting Puerto Rican. Have an adequate evening.

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

    When I was a high school social studies teacher I would work at Wal-Mart during the summers. Around 2005 I had to go through training in which the company touted its "international" stores, including those in Puerto Rico. :(

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

    Oh, lordy! 🤦🏾‍♀️ Not an excuse but an explanation, the Walton family hails from Arkansas and we all know how rich and diverse the education systems are in the south.

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

    Now ask how many realize that Guamanians, American Samoans, and people of the U.S. Virgin Islands are also American Citizens.

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

    There was a news article this week about a woman who was refused boarding on a flight to PR because she did not have a passport. She could not convince the a s s holes that PR is a part of the US and she didn't need a passport. Took them a day to get her on a flight.

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

    Recently, a Puerto Rican person who was detained at a US airport and refused entry because he didn't have a passport. He had a driver's license, he came directly from Puerto Rico and no one believed he was a citizen!

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

    And a slim percent of us citizens recognize people from nebraska as citizens because Nebraska is a democratic hoax

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

    A guy was denied a rental car at Hertz because both the clerk and security guard didn't believe him that PR was part of the US and were demanding his passport. He never did get a car, but did get an apology from Hertz (BFD).

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

    TIL See above. Why are we never taught this!? I didn't know this and now I'm ashamed at myself for never realizing it!

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

    I've lived among Puerto Ricans in several cities, and yeah, this is an unbelievable truism. The most recent was the Puerto Rican man who couldn't rent a car because he was a "foreigner". And, per usual, the police made the situation worse.

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

    I grew up there in the 1960s, a white Chicago kid. I had a wonderful time there with the Puerto Rican kids, growing up in a paradise. It infuriates me how poor the education in in the US.

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

    What exactly is a slim MAJORITY? I don’t think I’ve met anyone who doesn’t know this. .. you shouldn’t reach so far to bash.

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

    Yet my roommate from college (she is Puerto Rican) had to pay international prices to go to school. I was angry when I heard that and talked to my school about it but they couldn’t do anything about it

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

    Yet they don't really have the rights, the full rights of a US citizen. Aren't they petitioning for statehood?

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

    Wait until they hear that the people born in the Mariana Islands are also US Citizens.

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

    Trump didn't when he took office... I forget the quote, but they asked for FEMA assistance and he basically said that's only for America. I live in South Florida, and there are plenty of Puerto Ricans here, but I imagine if you're from Iowa you would only know if you paid attention in school, something the average American doesn't do!

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

    It isn't the fault of the students. It's the fault of the people setting the curriculum.

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

    As are those from Guam, American Samoa, US Virgin Islands…

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

    Personally, I'm surprised that it is a majority at all, considering that there is a non-zero minority that do not realize New Mexico is part of the United States. I was once asked for my Green Card to prove residency when presenting my NM birth certificate to get a driver's license. New Mexico is the only state that puts USA on its license plates.

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

    As a Puerto Rican who still lives in Puerto Rico , I often joke between my peers that Puerto Rico keeps getting bullied to the point that we've been colonized twice (colonized is prob not the correct term for what the US did to us after but it's just part of the joke we do)

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

    I think it’s sad that there are people studying for U.S. citizenship that know more about the U.S. than people born here…..

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

    I have a staff member (works at a different location) who got in trouble for being loud. She called me, said "I'm not being anything but myself here. They can't handle my Puerto Rican-ness!" Love that gal.

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

    And Puerto Rico is not a State. The Congress keeps turning that down. I don’t believe they are allowed to vote.The people in Guam can vote. They have no representative in Congress (meaning they have no say) and are not afforded the same Constitutional Rights as those in the 50 states.

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

    Congress isn't turning it down. The people of PR vote against it every time they are asked to vote for stateht

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

    USA citizens....not "American" 😒

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

    Ummmm you do realize América is made of three parts, right? North, central and South America, therefor Puertoricans are in fact Central "Americans". The term American doesn't only belong to the North.

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

    Bunk! It's only a slim majority of Americans that know any thing. What's yer point?

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    TIL that when the Bible was first translated into Finnish, there was no word for lion since nobody had ever seen one. The translator instead used the word “jalopeura” which means “noble deer”.

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    TIL elephants are capable of recognizing themselves in a mirror, which is a sign of self-awareness. Elephants were shown a mirror and their reactions were observed. They went through a series of behaviors, including touching their own bodies and inspecting their mouths.

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

    Many animals pass the mirror test. One of them is my cat! It's notoriously difficult to mirror test cats because they don't care for our scientific endeavours and often just ignore the mirror altogether. About a year ago I was doing some stuff in the kitchen and one of my cats accompanied me. He got a bit too annoying, so stuck a sticky paper to his back. Once he realised I put something on his back and that something wasn't easily coming off, no matter what he tried, he jumped to the open kitchen window and stared into the glass of the window which currently had the kitchen wall behind it, so he could see what was on his back. To do this he needs to know, that he can see himself when staring into a mirror and for this he needs to be aware of himself. I was a very proud cat dad that day

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    People Are Sharing Uncommon Facts On ‘Today I Learned’, Here Are 40 Of The Most Interesting (New Pics) TIL birth rates in the U.S. have dropped more than 20% since 2007.

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    People Are Sharing Uncommon Facts On ‘Today I Learned’, Here Are 40 Of The Most Interesting (New Pics) TIL that when Zlatan Ibrahimovic signed for MLS club LA Galaxy, LeBron James sent him one of his Lakers jerseys as a "welcome to LA" gift. Zlatan's response was to sign it and send it back.

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

    I wouldn't expect anything less from Zlatan! A legend sure, yet unlike the others.

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    People Are Sharing Uncommon Facts On ‘Today I Learned’, Here Are 40 Of The Most Interesting (New Pics) TIL of "Androgen Insensitivity Syndrome" where the body doesn't respond to testosterone so they have the genetic makeup of a man while showing the physical traits of a woman.

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

    I have a relative with this. She's very petite and feminine and only found out when periods didn't start in teen years. Sadly this was in the 60's and she wasn't treated very well by doctors and her parents who made her feel like a freak. Years of mental illness followed as a result. Very sad.

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    TIL that there are at least 5 species of shark living in the Thames estuary (which runs through London), and that one of those species is venomous.

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    TIL that out of 400-500 species of shark, the Sand Tiger Shark is the only one known to fart.

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    TIL that the morning after the Titanic sank, a man on a nearby vessel who was unaware of the sinking photographed an iceberg with a red streak he suspected to be paint from a ship. For years the law firm for White Star Line, the Titanic’s owner, had the original displayed in their office.

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    People Are Sharing Uncommon Facts On ‘Today I Learned’, Here Are 40 Of The Most Interesting (New Pics) TIL: In 1880, the average ages of consent in the US were set at 10 or 12 years old in most states, with the exception of Delaware where it was 7.

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    TIL that the crew of the sinking Daniel J. Morrell believed they were moments from being rescued, only to discover in horror that the lights were from the stern section of their own severed ship, still under power and barreling towards them.

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    People Are Sharing Uncommon Facts On ‘Today I Learned’, Here Are 40 Of The Most Interesting (New Pics) TIL during its long history, Jerusalem has been destroyed twice, besieged 23 times, attacked 52 times, and captured and recaptured 44 times.

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    TIL Domino's Pizza was unsuccessful in its attempt to expand into Italy, they failed to win over the local Italians as they preferred their local pizzerias.

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

    What did Domino's expect? That Italians would eat prefab pizza?

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    TIL that the most powerful earthquake ever recorded in the continental US occurred in New Madrid, MO, in 1812. It was so violent that the shaking was felt in New York, made church bells ring in South Carolina, and made part of the Mississippi River run backwards.

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

    Less known, but way more destructive, was the 1886 Charleston earthquake. Leaving 60 dead, and felt from Boston to Chicago to New Orleans and Cuba to Bermuda, it was one of the most destructive quakes in history of the East Coast.

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    TIL that in 2002 members of a simulated Mars mission in Utah uncovered an actual dinosaur fossil when on a mock spacewalk.

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

    At least now they're prepared for anything they'd find on Mars.

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    TIL that Sweden has 267,570 islands, the most of any country in the world.

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

    And it’s part of Scandinavia, which in my mind proves itself as amongst the most functional governments in the world! Dare we call it “socialism?!” God forbid! (Looking entirely at you, USA).

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    People Are Sharing Uncommon Facts On ‘Today I Learned’, Here Are 40 Of The Most Interesting (New Pics) TIL: Castrati were singers who were castrated before puberty to develop a unique voice for singing. They were primarily in church choirs and operas. Italian operas without one would be doomed to fail. The Pope tried to ban them in 1748, but failed as it would drastically reduce church attendance.

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

    "Better to castrate little boys than let women sing in church!" - Vatican logic. The regressive and backwards thinking of the Catholic Church is nothing if not consistent.

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    TIL Brontosaurus is a valid dinosaur again. As of 2015 it is no longer considered to be the same species as Apatosaurus.

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    TIL that lower class Germans are stereotyped as giving their children names that sound exotic in German, such as “Kevin.” Prejudice against people with such names is strong enough that the term “Kevinism” was coined to describe it.

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    People Are Sharing Uncommon Facts On ‘Today I Learned’, Here Are 40 Of The Most Interesting (New Pics) TIL in 2012 in Cebu, Philippines, after a 6.9 earthquake struck the city, someone shouted while finding their daughter whose name is "Chona Mae". This was misheard as "Tsunami" and eventually caused a mass panic.

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    TIL that despite living under Jim Crow, Percy Julian was a doctor who pioneered the drug industry. After he developed the chemical synthesis of hormones like testosterone & progesterone, he became the first African American chemist inducted into the National Academy of Sciences.

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    TIL The baby Sacajawea carried for 2000 miles was Jean Baptiste Charbonneau. He was delivered by Meriwether Lewis, raised by William Clark, lived in a German castle for six years, spoke four languages, was a military scout, fur tapper and gold miner. He’s buried in an Oregon ghost town.

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

    I wish now to be forever known by my bar buddies and history as a "fur tapper".

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    People Are Sharing Uncommon Facts On ‘Today I Learned’, Here Are 40 Of The Most Interesting (New Pics) TIL white rice is just brown rice with its outer layer milled off.

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

    I mean...sure, what else would it be? Do people not know anything about the food they consume?

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    TIL while writing the 1971 song "Ain't No Sunshine", Bill Withers had originally intended to write more lyrics instead of repeating the phrase "I know" 26 times, but then followed the advice of the other musicians to leave it that way. Withers said: "When they said to leave it like that, I left it."

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    TIL that there's a secret letter from Queen Elizabeth II locked in a Vault, and it can’t be opened till 2085.

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

    "We would like to inform the world that David Icke is correct and we are in fact lizards."

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    TIL that Dr. John Gueriguian, a medical reviewer at the FDA, warned about the toxic effects of Rezulin, but after the company developing the drug complained, he was removed and his review was deleted by FDA. Rezulin ended up killing dozens of people and resulted in hundreds of liver toxicities.

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

    It was probably cheaper to let people die than remove the product from the market.

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    People Are Sharing Uncommon Facts On ‘Today I Learned’, Here Are 40 Of The Most Interesting (New Pics) TIL Humans are a tropical species. Human evolution has produced bodies that were meant to live in hot and humid conditions. Our species is in its infancy as far as cold weather evolution is concerned, and physiologically speaking, our bodies are not supposed to be able to survive there.

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    TIL Graduate student Jocelyn Bell Burnell and her supervisor, Antony Hewish, built a radio telescope to observe quasars in 1967. Their discovery won the 1974 Nobel Prize – for Hewish. 50 years later, Burnell was awarded $3 Million in the Special Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics.

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

    Too many women who worked in a STEM-field in the 19th and 20th century have been deprived of their well-deserved recognition.

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    TIL the song ‘I’ll Be missing You’ by Puff Daddy was a huge success spending 11 weeks at number one. Puff Daddy did not secure rights to the song so Sting sued and owns 100% of the royalties until 2053.

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    It is not accurate to say Puff Daddy 'did not secure rights to the song'. The song is based on sampling from 'Every breath you take' by The Police. Puff Daddy is not ask for, nor receive permission, and therefore he was in violation of copyright law.

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    TIL that many animals spend much of their time doing nothing, even those we think of as particularly busy. "If you look at a colony of ants, or bees, or any social insect really, maybe a little bit less than half of them are just standing around doing what looks like nothing."

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    TIL that about 15% of all Tyrannosaurus rex fossil specimens show signs of having been infected with or killed by trichomoniasis, a parasitic infection in the jaw that leaves visible holes in the bone. Modern-day birds, such as falcons and hawks, can suffer from similar trichomoniasis infections.

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

    More proof that birds came from dinosaurs, but can anyone answer my question, were dinosaurs warm or cold blooded?

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    #52

    TIL in 2018, the 120-resident village of Acquetico in Italy installed speed cameras after being fed up with people speeding through it. In next 2 weeks, it recorded 58,500 speeding infractions.

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

    And now, they own the whole region of Liguria. Keep speeding, folks!

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    TIL the last surviving former slave in the US, Peter Mills died in 1972, aged 110 after being involved in a pedestrian accident.

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    TIL the FAA predicted that if kids under 2 years old were required to have their own seats on planes, at least 60 kids would die in car accidents for every kid saved because families that couldn't afford extra plane tickets would drive instead.

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

    Just goes to show fatality rates are very different between planes and cars. I am afraid of flying is a common phobia, afraid of driving is not.

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    People Are Sharing Uncommon Facts On ‘Today I Learned’, Here Are 40 Of The Most Interesting (New Pics) TIL After water, concrete is the most widely used substance on Earth. If the cement industry were a country, it would be the third largest carbon dioxide emitter in the world with up to 2.8bn tonnes, surpassed only by China and the US. [2018 numbers]

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

    Wouldn't sand be the most widely used substance after water? Its in concrete but also plastics, glass etc.

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    #56

    TIL that there were 26 Children and 36 Spouses of Spanish-American War veterans still receiving VA benefits or pensions as of 2021. The war happened nearly 125 years ago.

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    TIL James Earl Jones and Carrie Fisher never met until they made cameo appearances in an episode of The Big Bang Theory.

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    TIL people who work at U.S. nuclear power plants are exposed to less radiation than what is given off by the granite walls inside the U.S. Capitol Building.

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

    This is completely true. I knew an operator of a UK nuclear power plant who accidentally took his radiation tag home with him one weekend, and left on the windowsill. On arrival back at work the tag was completely black indicating a large dose of radiation. The radiation had come from the granite on which his house was built.

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    TIL of Fordite, also known as Detroit agate or Motor City agate, is old automotive paint which has hardened sufficiently to be cut and polished. It is used to make jewelry.

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    TIL almost 100 years before railroads, England’s Bridgewater Canal made it so one horse could pull 30 tons of coal, dropping the fuel price in half. It was so successful that it created a 1770’s “canal mania” starting the Industrial Revolution.

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

    I used to live near the Bridgewater Canal. It does go through some really beautiful parts of Greater Manchester. The water is also completely orange because of all the iron that fell into the water.

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    TIL The largest blackout in history left over 620 million people without power in 2012. Despite affecting 9% of the world's population, the blackout was entirely within the country of India.

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    TIL it is a federal crime, punishable by up to $100,000 and a year in prison, for most people in the U.S. to possess any part of a bald or golden eagle, even just a shed feather found on the ground.

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

    Only Native Americans are allowed to have such feathers in their possession. The law allows Native Americans to wear, use, inherit, or even give feathers to other Native Americans, they can't give the feathers to non-Native Americans.

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    TIL that the commonly believed myth of the 'end-point' of mental maturity at age 25 is outdated. Recent studies show prefrontal cortex maturation extends well past 30.

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

    And recent research has found external stressors can physically change an adult brain and those changes can be passed down to the children.

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    TIL John Stith Pemberton was a Confederate officer who became addicted to morphine after receiving a saber wound. Pemberton made a series of concoctions attempting to cure his addiction. Pemberton's experiments with coca and kola resulted in Pemberton's French Wine Coca and later Coca-Cola.

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

    And he created it in my hometown of Columbus, Georgia. Our historic district actually has his house and original workshop/pharmacy. While on a field trip in elementary school, one of my classmates asked if the bottles in the workshop were original (as in, did they have cocaine in them). The answer is no, by the way.

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    TIL that a Phillies fan credits the Phillies' dollar dog nights for saving his life, as he ate too many hot dogs and went to the hospital for a stomachache, where they found out he had blood cancer.

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    TIL of Nakahama Manjirō, a 14-year-old fisherman who was shipwrecked on an island with four friends. They were rescued by an American whaleship, who took them to Honolulu, where his friends stayed. Manjirō continued on to Massachusetts and become the first Japanese person to land on mainland USA.

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    TIL that the Woolworth Company (aka Woolworth's) did not go out of business but rather just changed their name to that of their most profitable division: Foot Locker.

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    TIL that graying is a sign of active hair growth. Gray hair is also both thicker and faster growing than pigmented hair.

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    People Are Sharing Uncommon Facts On ‘Today I Learned’, Here Are 40 Of The Most Interesting (New Pics) TIL that Johnny Cash was such a devout Christian, that in 1990, he recorded himself reading the entire New Testament Bible (NKJ Version). The entire recording has a running time of more than 19 hours.

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    TIL of Lafayette, "The Hero of Two Worlds", at 18 as a French Marquis he defied the King and sailed to America to fight in the Revolutionary War, he then left and served in the French Revolution. Once, when captured, Napoleon himself secured his release. He is buried under soil from Bunker Hill.

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

    "He was buried next to his wife at the Picpus Cemetery, Paris under soil from Bunker Hill, which his son Georges Washington sprinkled upon him."

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    TIL Byzantine emperor Basil II "the Bulgar Slayer" after the battle of Kleidion divided 15,000 war prisoners into groups of 100 men, blinded 99 men in each group and left one man in each with one eye so that he could lead the others home.

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

    Sometimes, the replies about Trump and how terrible the U.S. is are completely unnecessary and off topic. This has no comnection to Trump. And, if it's so terrible to live in the U.S., go somewhere else.

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    TIL about Zone Rouge, an uninhabitable area of land in France 1,200 square km large that in 1918 was deemed too damaged by lead, mercury, chlorine and arsenic shells from WW1 to be repopulated. At the current rate of recovery, it will take 700 years to make the whole area safe.

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

    From Wikipedia, "Restrictions within the Zone Rouge still exist today, although the control areas have been greatly reduced." The 300 to 700 years is the time estimated to rid the entire area of unexploded ordnance.

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    TIL that Jack White of the White Stripes originally wanted to save the guitar riff used in "Seven Nation Army" for if he got the chance to make a James Bond theme song. 5 years after the song was released, he wrote the theme for the 2008 Bond film Quantum of Solace.

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

    I quite like the song he did with Alicia Keys, ‘Another Way To Die’. Definitely a pairing you’d never expect to duet together. Which was the reason why he asked her to do it.

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    TIL from 1976 to 1989 an unknown taping noise was audible worldwide on commercial and civilian communications (tv broadcast, commercial aviation, SW radio). The source was the Duga radar "The Russian Woodpecker" a huge over-the-horizon radar used by the Soviets as a missile detection system.

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

    * Tapping - I was so confused about what a “taping” noise was!

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    TIL Time magazine was the first to introduce the name "World War II"

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    TIL About 70 percent of the material for the original Human Genome Project came from some dude in Buffalo, NY.

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    TIL many navies around the world through history have a ritual to "celebrate" crossing the equator as an initiation for those doing it for the first time.

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

    Not only navies, but also merchant fleets. It's a tradition as old as the awareness of the equator itself.

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    TIL that Black Widow spiders are often hunted down and killed by their Brown Widow cousins when in the same territory.

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

    If Australian experience with black and brown versions of the closely related Australian red-back spider are any guide, the brown spiders can be just as deadly as their black counterparts.

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    TIL that estrogen from birth control pills is sometimes excreted in human waste, which can end up in municipal wastewater, and eventually the environment. Some species of male fish are becoming 'feminized' as a result.

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    TIL The U.S. Forcibly Detained Native Alaskans During World War II. 881 Aleuts were forcibly relocated and interned in unsanitary camps in southeast Alaska, nobody was allowed to bring more than one suitcase of possessions. Troops then set fire to the villages to prevent its use by the Japanese.

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    TIL one bad apple in a bunch will release ethylene, ruining all the other apples.

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    TIL Robert Oppenheimer(born in 1904) didn't read newspapers and didn't keep up with the news at all until the 1930's. A native new yorker, he wasn't informed of the 1929 wall street crash until a friend told him, 6 months after the fact.

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

    This makes me wonder if his failure to understand the state of the world contributed to his role as father of the atomic bomb.

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    TIL Disney is said to spend $10.68 billion every single year to keep their parks open and functional. If you were to split that evenly, each park would cost roughly $3.25 million per day to stay open.

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

    Now I would really like to know how much each park makes through tickets each day.

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    TIL The Magna Carta was annulled by Pope Innocent III and reinstated multiple times by different English Kings. While perceived as a constitution the Magna Carta was limited to 25 Barons and the King, and the document has been almost entirely repealed or replaced with new laws over the centuries.

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

    As it should be. It worked (kinda) for the early 1200s, but of course it was changed over time. But it was good for its time, and it was a start.

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    TIL: About Saburō Kurusu, a Japanese diplomat to the United States during the Pearl Harbor attack. He was unaware of the attack and was on his way to the Secretary of State to deliver a reply to the previous diplomatic communications.

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    TIL The life expectancy in Cambodia dropped to 14 years in 1978.

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

    My favorite country to visit. Been there twice. Friendliest people on the planet!

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    TIL Singer, the sewing machine manufacturer, also made military aircraft navigation and targeting equipment, plus 1911A1 handguns.

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    TIL that Magnus Carlsen intentionally plays non-book "inaccuracies" during opening (moves he knows aren't the best), in order to force the game into a non-book position, so his opponents will have to think for themselves instead of going by memorized opening theory

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

    He does? Good on him. According to chess master David Levy this is the best way to beat a chess computer, as it takes the computer out of its pre-recorded game strategies to force the computer to have to fight for every advantage.

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    People Are Sharing Uncommon Facts On ‘Today I Learned’, Here Are 40 Of The Most Interesting (New Pics) TIL Boogers contain salivary mucins, which forms a barrier on your teeth from bacteria that can cause cavities.

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    TIL The main reason why so many English football/soccer clubs use the word ´United´in their name; to signify a union of two teams that were in close proximity, making them a stronger team.

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

    I was told by my dad - freemason - that a lot of the 'United' teams were started by Freemasons, Also United = Catholic and City = Protestant

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    TIL that after a Dr Seuss cartoon featured a Flit insecticide sprayer, he landed an endorsement deal with the company for 17 years, which allowed Seuss and his family to get through The Great Depression.

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    TIL the Walt Disney Company neither owns nor operates Tokyo Disneyland.

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

    The only non-American park that they do own is Disneyland Paris. So they don't own the ones in Hong Kong or China either .

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    TIL that as of 2023 Canadian government health guidelines now define drinking more than 2 alcoholic beverages per week as "moderate risk" drinking and more than 6 per week as "increasingly high risk" drinking.

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    TIL during the Vietnam War, the U.S. conducted Operation Popeye which involved a "cloud-seeding" mission to stimulate clouds in Vietnam and extend the monsoon season. It was later declassified in 1974, and the United States' involvement in this operation became public knowledge.

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

    We did so much damage over there, on so many levels!

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    TIL that, according to the CDC, the job fields with the highest s*icide rate per 100,000 people for men is Construction and Extraction (53.2) while for women it’s Art, Design, Entertainment, Sports and Media (15.6)

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

    In Australia, Veterinarians are almost four times more likely to d*e by su*icide compared to the rate for the general population. It equates to a de*th every 12 weeks - it's a terrible & sad statistic

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    People Are Sharing Uncommon Facts On ‘Today I Learned’, Here Are 40 Of The Most Interesting (New Pics) TIL that Andy Warhol was secretly a devout Byzantine Catholic, who attended church almost daily. At one point, he financed his nephew’s studies for priesthood, and was also responsible for at least one religious conversion. Warhol’s brother described him as “really religious”.

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

    Well at least he didn't bother other people with his religion

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    TIL that the New York City Subway has the most stops of any metro system in the world.

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    TIL Male cigarette smokers have significantly higher levels of total and free testosterone compared with men who never smoked.

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    TIL about Jack Parsons, rocket scientist and occultist, friend of Aliester Crowley and L Ron Hubbard, who founded the Jet Propulsion Laboratory and died in an explosion.

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

    My dad was the Deputy Director of Management at JPL. I went to high school on the same street. Lots of rumors about that place.

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    TIL Germany sold 22 Mig-29 to Poland in 2003 for just 22 €.

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    TIL that the Equator line doesn't cross Equatorial Guinea.

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

    In a similar vein, the actor Gary Oldman, is actually younger than the musician Gary Numan.

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    TIL that there is one McDonald's in the continental US that still serves fried apple pies.

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

    Are they not usually in the US? TIL, they are definitely fried in the UK, at least they were when I worked in McDs.

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    People Are Sharing Uncommon Facts On ‘Today I Learned’, Here Are 40 Of The Most Interesting (New Pics) TIL Beyoncé earned $24 million for a one-hour concert in Dubai.

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

    While children starve. So irritating! I just don’t get this world!

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    TIL about the "First Browser War", which took place from 1995-2001, and ended with the up-and-coming Internet Explorer eliminating Netscape Navigator as a rival. By 2001, Internet Explorer had attained a peak of 96% Web Browser Usage Share.

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

    I remember this pretty well, kinda liked Netscape Navigator.

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    TIL that the curveball was invented by a baseball player named Candy Cummings. He was also the first player ever to pitch two complete games in one day and later invented a device to safely couple railroad cars together.

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

    His real names were William Arthur Cummings, 'Candy was a 19th century nickname for a man who was the best at his craft. ne century later it sounds like a p**n name lol.

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    TIL the French bulldog is now the top purebred dog of USA. Beating the labrador retriever that held the title for 31 years.

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

    It’s hard to have any respect for someone who would go out and buy themselves a Frenchie. Generations of over-breeding & inbreeding mean most of these poor pups can’t even be birthed naturally. Then comes a likely (shortened) lifetime of myriad issues like breathing problems, skin infections, eye infections, ear infections, spinal deformities, and heart disease. This is not news. The fact that some people still have no problem buying one of these dogs — sentencing it essentially to a lifetime of suffering, because they’re “cute” — and then have the absolute nerve to call themselves dog lovers? Well, it just baffles me.

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    TIL a liquor store in Oklahoma City installed a machine gun tower on the roof of the store after being bombed by the mafia multiple times.

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    #108

    TIL Beyond Good and Evil 2 has broken the record for longest game development time, at almost 16 years.

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    #109

    TIL, about Poundbury, a town that was built according to the Principles of King Charles III. It started construction in 1993 and is currently 80% built. 4,600 people currently live there.

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    #110

    TIL the search and discovery of the Titanic was only allowed as to cover for searching for 2 US nuclear submarines that sunk in the 60s.

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

    Completely incorrect. And we wonder why the search would have to be allowed in the first place. It’s in the middle of the Atlantic.

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    #111

    TIL that while the quantity of stars on the US flag is determined by an act of congress, the size and position of the starts are determined by executive order and can be set unilaterally by the president.

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

    I was under the impression each star was a state, so e.g. if Puerto Rico gets statehood then you have to add a star.

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