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Today is a brand new day and before it turns into yet another small and insignificant spot somewhere in a 365-day bender, there’s time to make it worthwhile. So today, we baked you a special treat of a list that features some of the most entertaining facts you probably didn’t know.

Thanks to our dear friends and the powerhouse of Reddit, “Today I Learned,” we have quite a read to scroll through right below. The group’s whopping 26.2 million members prove that too many of us love that sense of discovery, no matter how big or small it be. And often all it takes is one specific fact to pump up your trivia muscle!

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30 ‘Today I Learned’ Facts That Show It’s Never Too Late To Learn (New Pics) TIL 110 years ago Dr Charles Campbell constructed 30 feet high bat roost to fight malaria. Bats that lived in the roost ate the mosquitoes and Mitchell's lake municipality was malaria-free in 4 years.

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

Bats are good people

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

The best thing about England is the number of bat species we have, and they're all protected so leave them the heck alone!!

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

We have bats here. On a summers evening they fly about, it's fantastic and they eat the bloody mozzies.

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

I had bats living in my attic, but I put a new roof on the house, and now I have bat boxes scattered around. Where I live, I had to wait until after bat breeding season to put the new roof on. I love them. We need to save them, and the bees.

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

Totally organic pest control. The bats got plentiful food, and the people got a break from malaria. The only ones on the short end of the stick were the mosquitoes—-but they WERE carrying malaria, so if someone had to go, it was them.

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

I saw a dead bat on the pavement a few days ago. Never seen a random dead bat in the street before. I felt so sad about it.

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

That's not normal. I hope you reported it, it needs to be tested for Rabies, etc. I really hope that no kids found it, or someone's pet.

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

I learnt about bat boxes just last week from the Alaskan bush people. Pretty good idea.

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

Yesterday I learnt that there is a wrong way and a right way to build a bat refuge. And it can depend on where you are / the micro climate / the species of bat in that area.

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

If it weren't for bats, we would be overrun by insects. It's said that it's their world and we're just guests. We were really lucky to get One Badass, Bug Biting Flying Mammal! 🦇

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

I once had to usher a flock of hysterical aunts and cousins of my husband's out of a Palace chamber when a bat flew in at dusk. Everyone was screaming and mowing their arms around because of a bat, the whole thing was hilarious. Poor bat though, it had simply got lost and was confused. I ushered the hysterical in-laws out, closed the doors, turned the lights off and opened all windows. Bat was out in no time. Great memories.

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

That's how I learned I had bats in my attic... they started showing up in the house, much to the delight of the cats. I had to usher the bats into a bed room where I could close them in and let them find their way out thru open windows

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

As a youngster, I would lay in the grass, watching hundreds of bats swarm the sky. We appreciated these little creatures since we lived in a heavily wooded swamp. Many years later I lived in a marshy area, so I put up several bat roosts on the outbuildings in my yard.

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

Mosquito-eating fish are good little friends to have around too, just need some water.

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

Betcha some people thought Dr. Campbell was batty! Turns out he wasn't they were!

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

If only I had a pet bat last night before some dumb mosquito tried to eat me *written while scratching the bites

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

Now we'd spray with a toxic chemical, and then in 50 years we'd call the area a superfund site and never clean it up.

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

I live in Central London and always get excited when I see bats from my kitchen window at dusk.

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

I live in northern Alabama (USA) and my neighborhood has lots of trees, and lots of bats live in the trees! Every night we can go outside and see bats flying about, looking for bugs to eat :)

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

I wonder if they waited for it to be populated by bats naturally or if they sent away for fancy bats.

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

It's always better to encourage native animals. Shipping in non-native, invasive species has been amply proven to be a terrible idea. Ask Australia.

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

Then they found out bats can carry some nasty diseases, along with lots of other animals of course. E.g. Rabies, Lyssavirus, Covid.

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

Only problem: they transmit rabies.

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

So do dogs, cats, cattle, raccoons, skunks, foxes, people, etc...

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    30 ‘Today I Learned’ Facts That Show It’s Never Too Late To Learn (New Pics) TIL that the first child protective services organization in the world was created after the founder of the American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals realized laws protecting animals from abuse were stronger than laws protecting children

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    30 ‘Today I Learned’ Facts That Show It’s Never Too Late To Learn (New Pics) TIL Mexico was the only country to protest the annexation of Austria by Nazi Germany. To honor that support, there is a square in Vienna named "Mexikoplatz"

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    30 ‘Today I Learned’ Facts That Show It’s Never Too Late To Learn (New Pics) TIL about a man who shot a protected saguaro cactus down with his shotgun in 1982. The cactus fell on him, crushing and impaling him to death.

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    Depressing it took so long! We need to keep older languages alive. Moana was released in Tokelauan, and there are songs that were never translated into English to encourage natives to keep their language alive.

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    30 ‘Today I Learned’ Facts That Show It’s Never Too Late To Learn (New Pics) TIL that the song "Scary Monsters and Nice Sprites" by the artist Skrillex was observed as a mosquito repellent due to its low-frequency vibrations. The scientists also found that mosquitoes exposed to the song had sex "far less often" than other mosquitos without music.

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    30 ‘Today I Learned’ Facts That Show It’s Never Too Late To Learn (New Pics) TIL The British army breaks step when crossing bridges. This is because in 1831 a suspension bridge collapsed from all the soldiers marching in unison.

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

    Look up what happened with the Millennium Bridge. Pedestrians hit the resonant frequency of the bridge by accident, but then the effect was multiplied when people started correcting their steps to keep their balance.

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    30 ‘Today I Learned’ Facts That Show It’s Never Too Late To Learn (New Pics) TIL that the FTC actually recommends against organizations using regular password changing policies as it only encourages users to use simple, easy to remember passwords that they then only alter in predictable ways.

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

    Alternatively, it causes users to come up with passwords so secure that even they can't access their accounts.

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    30 ‘Today I Learned’ Facts That Show It’s Never Too Late To Learn (New Pics) TIL that in China 209 BC two generals were going to be late which was punishable by death. They realized that the punish for rebellion was the same as the one for being late, so they decided to rebel and created an uprising.

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

    They're not general but just low level officer. Their names are Chen Sheng & Wu Guang (surname first). Their revolt was suppressed in just 6 months.

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    30 ‘Today I Learned’ Facts That Show It’s Never Too Late To Learn (New Pics) TIL that Enya lives in a castle in Ireland, and when Bo Burnham wanted to include Orinoco Flow in his film, he had to send her a hand written letter

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    TIL of Lady Lucy Houston, a British philanthropist who, after WWI, recognized the need for a strong Air Force... when the British government refused, she funded development of what became the Spitfire. She passed before WWII, and never saw how much that investment paid off.

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

    This is interesting. What a great woman. http://www.warfaremagazine.co.uk/articles/Lady-Lucy-Houston-The-Unsung-Heroine/224

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    TIL that a guy drove 3.25 million miles with his Volvo that he bought in 1966 until his death in 2018

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    30 ‘Today I Learned’ Facts That Show It’s Never Too Late To Learn (New Pics) TIL, While alcohol made from apples is called cider, alcohol made from pears is called "Perry"

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

    It goes down like water as well and is usually quite strong. Perfect for a hot summers day but watch yourself on it.

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    TIL: President Nixon, wife Pat, and Henry Kissinger took lessons and practiced for months to learn to use chopsticks properly, in preparation for the dinner banquet on his visit to China in 1972

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    TIL that Filipino churches built during Spain's colonial period used millions of egg whites in the concrete to make it more durable. This is also why Filipino desserts often use lots of egg yolks- many were developed to use up all the extra yolks from construction projects

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    On the other hand, monasteries used a lot of egg yolk for their manuscripts and had to create recipes with the white, which is why we have meringue, macarons, and other sweets with a lot of egg whites.

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    30 ‘Today I Learned’ Facts That Show It’s Never Too Late To Learn (New Pics) TIL James Blunt(singer) developed scurvy in university when he ate only meat for two months 'out of principle' to annoy vegetarian classmates

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    He added orange juice to his diet to try to combat it and got acid reflux. Balance in diet is important!!!

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    30 ‘Today I Learned’ Facts That Show It’s Never Too Late To Learn (New Pics) TIL the sex of alligator hatchlings is based purely on temperature while incubating. At 86F or lower, the babies will all be female; at 93F or higher, they will all be male. The mother can sense these changes in temperature and will alter the nest to maintain an optimum temperature.

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    30 ‘Today I Learned’ Facts That Show It’s Never Too Late To Learn (New Pics) TIL The Vatican has its own telescope staffed by priests, and has previously been given awards for the pursuit of scientific research.

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    Several catholic orders consider pursue of academic knowledge and research to be one of their

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    30 ‘Today I Learned’ Facts That Show It’s Never Too Late To Learn (New Pics) TIL that in 1939 an experiment was conducted at the University of Iowa on orphans in which the purpose was to induce stuttering in otherwise normally speaking children. Dubbed the "monster study", it caused lifelong psychological issues in some of the subjects.

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    TIL David Lucas, a producer of the 1976 rock hit "Don't Fear The Reaper", really did want more cowbell, while band members felt he was crazy. In a 2005 interview, the bassist recalled that the cowbell "really pulled the track together".

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    30 ‘Today I Learned’ Facts That Show It’s Never Too Late To Learn (New Pics) TIL of garden hermits, people encouraged to dress as druids and live in caves and grottoes on the estates of rich people effectively as decoration in the 18th century, usually receiving room and board as payment. One such hermit was fired three weeks into a seven year term after being found drinking at a local pub.

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    "Druid" is not a correct term. Hermite is a type of Christian monk that lives alone in a wilderness, but now that I think of it, they were similar to druids in some aspects, for example, they were believed to be friends with animals and animals would be helping them out.

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    30 ‘Today I Learned’ Facts That Show It’s Never Too Late To Learn (New Pics) TIL that Stalin struggled with depression and summoned renowned Russian psychiatrist Vladimir Bekhterev to examine him. After the examination Bekhterev said only one word - "paranoiac". He died on the very next day from what most believed was poisoning.

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    "I have a feeling people don't like me, it's not like I ban them from speaking their minds and send them to gulags to freeze or work to death if I don't like what they say."

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    30 ‘Today I Learned’ Facts That Show It’s Never Too Late To Learn (New Pics) TIL A day on Venus is longer than a year on Venus. It takes Venus longer to rotate once on its axis than to complete one orbit of the Sun. That's 243 Earth days to rotate once, and 225 Earth days to complete one orbit of the Sun.

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    Pretty sure Mercury is the same. Conversely, a lunar year and a lunar day are identical which is why we always have the same side facing us

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    30 ‘Today I Learned’ Facts That Show It’s Never Too Late To Learn (New Pics) Today I learned Charlie Chaplin didn't actually have a mustache, it was a part of his makeup.

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

    Unlike Cesar Romero who did have a mustache that Ben Nye attempted to hide under makeup. (Cesar Romero played the Joker in the original TV Batman series.)

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    30 ‘Today I Learned’ Facts That Show It’s Never Too Late To Learn (New Pics) TIL there is a full taxidermed whale in a Swedish museum that was open to the public until a couple was caught making love inside it (1930's)

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

    And they weren't the first -- just the first to get caught. (jk)

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    TIL pepperoni is an American invention. It's similar to the spicy salamis of southern Italy, but it also has elements characteristic of German sausages (smokiness, beef content, and fine grind). In Italian, "peperoni" just means "bell peppers".

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

    In Germany, 'peperoni' is used for something similar to chili peppers. For years, when I read about 'peperoni pizza' I believed it was just a pizza with a whole lot of chili.

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    30 ‘Today I Learned’ Facts That Show It’s Never Too Late To Learn (New Pics) TIL ancient Egyptians would give opium to quiet crying babies. This practice was also a popular way to calm babies in the Victorian era, but it sometimes caused infants to starve to death as they were kept in a constant state of narcotism.

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

    This used to be done in my village too. They would give strong poppy tea to crying babies to calm them down. Good as a painkiller but definetly too dangerous for babies since some would die.

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    30 ‘Today I Learned’ Facts That Show It’s Never Too Late To Learn (New Pics) TIL that half of all panda births result in twins, however, it is very rare for both cubs to survive as giant pandas almost always abandon a cub if they give birth to more than one

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

    I saw a Youtube video about this! Chinese scientist were trying to keep alive both babies, so they switched them up in regular intervals. The bear mama only had one baby at her at all times, while the other one was in incubator and nursed by caretakers, and then switch so both babies would get mama love and milk.

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    TIL that the opossum and the possum are not the same animal. The opossum lives in North America and the possum lives in Australia and SE Asia. While they are both marsupials, they belong to different orders. An example of a possum would be the sugar glider, which weighs less than 5 ounces.

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    TIL that in 1457 golf was banned in Scotland by king James II, because he felt that young men were playing too much golf instead of practicing archery. It remained in banned until 1502, when James IV became a golfer.

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

    But...............HEAR ME OUT! What if they use a golf ball made of metals..........so that when the enemies comes, the can swing the golf to the enemies.

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    #31

    TIL President Nixon ordered the Secret Service guarding the White House to have fancy uniforms similar to what palace guards wear in other countries. Revealed in 1970, almost no one liked the new uniforms, including the US Secret Service agents. The uniforms were sold to an Iowa Marching Band.

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    TIL that James Garfield, the 20th president of the United States, developed a new proof for the Pythagorean theorem while discussing math with some members of Congress. His proof was published in a peer reviewed journal

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

    Garfield was also, if I remember correctly, able to write the same sentence in Latin with his right hand and in Greek with his left simultaneously.

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    30 ‘Today I Learned’ Facts That Show It’s Never Too Late To Learn (New Pics) TIL According to a 2011 study, SpongeBob is messing with the memory retention of children, impairing their “readiness for learning.” Findings show that allowing preschoolers to watch the series causes short-term disruptions in mental function and attention span due to frequent camera cut scenes.

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

    That’s an interesting info. So what‘s a good alternative for young children? Dora the explorer? Or that puppy show that‘s currently so popular? (A lot of shows targeted at young children are educational in some way, but I have no idea which of these have frequent camera cut scenes. Doesn’t seem like something you can simply google, either.)

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    30 ‘Today I Learned’ Facts That Show It’s Never Too Late To Learn (New Pics) TIL the most expensive first class tickets on the Titanic were $4350 (or £870) in 1912 money. That's over $100,000 today.

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    TIL In 1888 Alfred Nobel (of Nobel Prize fame) was astonished to read his own obituary titled "The merchant of death is dead". Actually it was his brother Ludvig who died but the article disconcerted Nobel about how he would be remembered and inspired him to change his will.

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

    He was renowned for inventing dynamite, hence 'merchant of death'

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    TIL: According to Dan Aykroyd 80 percent of the dialogue of Ghostbusters was improv. "The rest was just structure and exposition."

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

    I find that "instant" dialogue is better in comedies because the situations bring forth obvious and witty comments that writers cannot "see" at the time they are writing. Robin Williams, and others are brilliant at this.

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    #37

    TIL drawings of battles between knights and snails appear in the margins of many texts from the 13th and 14th centuries. There is no known explanation for the meaning behind this recurring depiction.

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

    Do you see any giant snails trying to conquer us? No. Obviously the knights won.

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    TIL that during Civil War, the North blockaded salt imports and destroyed salt mines in the South to sabotage food preservation. The food shortages resulted in general unrest and contributed to surrender.

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

    Pretty standard old-style warfare, why do you think castles in europe stockpiled food and had a well?

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    TIL a quantum logic clock at the Univ. of Colorado Boulder is so accurate, it would not lose 1 second in 33 billion years (about 2.5 times the age of the universe)

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    30 ‘Today I Learned’ Facts That Show It’s Never Too Late To Learn (New Pics) TIl an english garbage man won the lottery for 10 million pounds (25 mill USD in today's money), lost all of it then 8 years later reapplied for his old job as a garbage man.

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

    Before anyone feels sorry for him, he didn’t “lose it” through run of bad luck or decisions, he blew it on a 2K a day coke habit and orgies with prostitutes. He was quite profilic in the news for a while.

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    TIL Nokia 1100 phone, originally sold for under $100, reached the price of over $32,000 in 2009 as criminals discovered that it can receive SMS messages for another phone number, thus allowing to intercept sensitive information like one-time passwords for online banking

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

    I just looked this phone up and found one for sale for .£14.90. Looks like the robbers were robbed😁

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    TIL that "granny style" is the most efficient throwing technique for free throws in basketball. The only reason no one does it seems to be because the players are afraid of ridicule. There is no rule against it.

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

    Yep, makes you look like an idiot, but much more effective and accurate

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    TIL that the Beatles’ final concert for a paying audience wasn't sold out, leaving over 15,000 unsold seats, largely because no one realized it would be their last concert appearance.

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

    I mean, any performance could be a group's last. I'm always a bit sceptical when groups advertise as their last tour, cause there's nothing to stop them changing their mind later.

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    TIL Elizabeth Ann is a black-footed ferret, the first U.S. endangered species to be cloned. The animal was cloned using the frozen cells from Willa, a black-footed female ferret who died in the 1980s and had no living descendants.

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    30 ‘Today I Learned’ Facts That Show It’s Never Too Late To Learn (New Pics) TIL it only takes the average person 10-20 minutes to fall asleep

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

    My partner can fall asleep in minutes. I take hours and get up frequently.

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    30 ‘Today I Learned’ Facts That Show It’s Never Too Late To Learn (New Pics) TIL A group of engineering students from Purdue University reported that its licking machine, modeled after a human tongue, took an average of 364 licks to get to the center of a Tootsie Pop.

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

    There's a study I could have volunteered for if it wasn't for those pesky robots, coming over here and stealing our jobs.

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    TIL kamikaze pilots weren't 100% volunteer. Pilots were asked to put their hand up in a big group if they didn't want to volunteer. Amid peer pressure, hardly anyone was able to say no to the mission.

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

    It was much more than peer pressure. It was their culture of being courageous and not chicken out. They could die with great honor or as a coward without a face, which would also bring shame on their family.

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    TIL That the US Army tradition of naming helicopters after Native American Tribes (something that was once an official regulation) dates to 1947 and General Hamilton Howze who felt that helicopters were meant to attack the flank and fade away...in the tradition of the Plains Indian tribes.

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

    Instead of spreading diseases, committing genocide, and pillaging native lands, in the tradition of almost all European armies and their descendants in the past.

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    TIL Bruce Springsteen's mother would rent him guitars for $6 a week in 1957. Springsteen bought his first guitar as a teenager in 1964 for $18.95. Later on, his mother would take out a loan to buy him a $60 Kent guitar.

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

    I had to read this more than once to figure out that she was paying to rent a guitar FOR him.... not that she owned a guitar and was charging HIM rent to use it. 🤣

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    TIL that a man bet his friend that he could make any house famous. To accomplish this, he wrote thousands of letters requesting services at 54 Berners Street. So many people showed up on the day that parts of London were shut down. The man (who watched it unfold from across the street) won the bet.

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    TIL that submarines use a generator to extract oxygen from water using electrolysis.

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    #52

    TIL Anchorage, Alaska, is almost equidistant from New York City, Tokyo, and Frankfurt, Germany (via the polar route), and lies within 10 hours by air of nearly 90% of the industrialized world

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

    Cargo airplane hub. Strange to be at an airport where cargo planes outnumber passenger planes by a lot!

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    TIL that there are actually fireflies all along the west coast of the U.S.; they just prefer to be active during the day.

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    30 ‘Today I Learned’ Facts That Show It’s Never Too Late To Learn (New Pics) TIL that Smarties candy was originally made with machines that were built to make gunpowder pellets for ammunition during World War I.

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

    And where I come from "Smarties" are sugar coated chocolate treats, pretty much M&Ms without the letters on them. And yet we also have these little sherbet pellets like in the picture, so don't ask me how THAT works!

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    TIL in 1967 students at the University of Colorado voted to name their new cafeteria after Colorado’s most well-known cannibal, Alfred Packer.

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

    "Colorado's most well known cannibal", so just how big was the cannibal population there?

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    TIL In 2012 as a Valentine’s Day promotion, Pizza Hut offered a $10,010 “proposal package” that included $10 in pizza and breadsticks, limo service, a photographer, fireworks, and a ruby engagement ring.

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    30 ‘Today I Learned’ Facts That Show It’s Never Too Late To Learn (New Pics) TIL that the two least profitable movies of all time both take place on Mars. Mars Needs Moms, an animated Disney film, lost $143 million, and John Carter, a live action Disney film, lost nearly $127 million.

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

    I have a feeling that movies taking place on Uranus would be major blockbusters.

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    TIL: There's a guy who is responsible for maintaining the database of time zones which computers and operating systems use to configure locales. His name is Paul Eggert. And he's a computer scientist based in California.

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

    I don't suppose he could pause it this weekend, and let me have one more day before going back to work?

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    TIL that d'Armond Speers tried to teach his son Klingon language, used by Klingons in Star Trek series, as a first language. The boy answered mostly in English which his mother talked to him in and at the age of 5 stopped answering dad when he was speaking Klingon to him.

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

    That’s probably because mum or somebody else told him to. A toddler cannot distinguish a fictional from a real language.

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    30 ‘Today I Learned’ Facts That Show It’s Never Too Late To Learn (New Pics) TIL that humans didn't perform the critically acclaimed high five before the 70's.

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

    According to Wikipedia it was popularised by US sportsmen who adapted it from the low-five used by African-Americans since at least the 1920s.

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    30 ‘Today I Learned’ Facts That Show It’s Never Too Late To Learn (New Pics) TIL Spirit Halloween, which is owned by Spencer's, runs over 1200 locations each year for 4-8 weeks. They spend the rest of the year scouting empty locations for the next Halloween season

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    TIL that screensavers were originally created to save CRT screens from burning an image into the display due to prolonged, unchanged use.

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    30 ‘Today I Learned’ Facts That Show It’s Never Too Late To Learn (New Pics) TIL Americans Watched Over 57 Billion Minutes Of The Office In 2020

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    TIL traditional battleships are no longer used by any navy. Most were decommissioned following World War II, but the US maintained 4 that were in and out of service until the 1990s.

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    30 ‘Today I Learned’ Facts That Show It’s Never Too Late To Learn (New Pics) TIL in the early 2000's Serena and Venus Williams, along with their father Richard, were regularly accused of "match fixing" when the sisters competed against one another. One incident, where Venus pulled out entirely from a semifinal match against her sister (tendinitis), had fans demanding refunds

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

    Serena once said in an interview at Wimbledon that she puts more effort into playing her sister than she does into a semi-final at Wimbledon. Having observed my family's competitive nature, I can understand that.

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    TIL the 'Fake Shemp' - using one actor to fill in for another - is now prohibited by Screen Actors Guild rules, as a result of a lawsuit filed by Crispin Glover over his replacement in Back to the Future II

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

    Not exactly true, they have terms to follow because if it was banned completely they couldn't use stunt / body doubles, and they couldn't have recast Rhodes in iron Man for Don "why did they do it" Cheadle

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    30 ‘Today I Learned’ Facts That Show It’s Never Too Late To Learn (New Pics) TIL Vince Gilligan strongly regretted introducing the machine gun to Breaking Bad's last season and found writing a convincing explanation for it so difficult that he nearly abandoned the plot device out of frustration

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

    Chemists should use chemical weapons. Poison gas or explosives would have been more in character.

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    TIL The 1941 American movie drama 'Citizen Kane' was originally a box office flop. The movie failed to recoup its cost at the box office. Radio City Music Hall's management refused to screen Citizen Kane for its premiere. Today, Citizen Kane is considered the Greatest American Film of All Time.

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

    Some say it was sabotaged by William Randolph Hearst, who was not pleased that Kane was clearly modelled on him.

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    30 ‘Today I Learned’ Facts That Show It’s Never Too Late To Learn (New Pics) TIL that the destruction of Hiroshima was caused by only half a gram of matter being converted to energy: the weight of a butterfly

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

    This is 100% false. Around 1 kilo probably underwent fission. Bad no matter what, but lots of material is needed to make an atomic bomb. I know because I got a C in the physics of nuclear weapons class in college

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