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TIL about Les Apaches, a Parisean street gang from the early 20th century who had their own signature dress style, signature weapons, signature mugging technique and even a signature dance.
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TIL that as Bangladesh's liberation war against Pakistan continued, Pakistan killed numerous Bangladeshi intellectuals as part of the Bangladesh genocide, so as to kneecap the country's future pro...
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TIL from 1967 to 1977, American epidemiologist Donald Henderson led an international effort that successfully eradicated smallpox worldwide. For his efforts, he was given the Presidential Medal of...
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TIL in 1951 the St. Louis Browns let fans in the stands vote on the team's decisions during a Major League Baseball game, with 1,115 of them holding up placards reading yes and no. The usual manag...
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TIL that LATAM Airlines is only a backronym for LATin AMerica. The name LATAM came from a merger of LAN Chile and TAM Linhas Aéreas, the acronyms of which do not reference Latin America.
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TIL that skunks in the Pacific Northwest eat mostly wasps during the dry months of summer
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TIL about jamais vu, the opposite of déjà vu: when something familiar suddenly feels completely unfamiliar or strange, even though you know you've seen it before.
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TIL the inventor of the modern Frisbee once said that after death people "just land up on the roof and lay there." Per his wishes, his ashes were turned into Frisbees after he died, and his wife t...
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TIL that a battery invented in 1825 by an Italian Physicist and Priest has been ringing a bell continuously and hasn’t run out yet
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TIL The Yongle Encyclopedia, completed in China in 1408, was the world's longest general encyclopedia until being surpassed by Wikipedia in 2007. Sadly, most of it does not survive
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TIL when Heath Ledger passed away during filming of The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus, Terry Gilliam rewrote the plot so that his character transforms passing through a mirror, allowing actors J...
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TIL Dandelions have the folk name 'Piss-A-Bed' because their leaves are a strong diuretic.
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TIL Harry Brearley accidentally invented "rustless steel" in Sheffield in 1913 while trying to make gun barrels last longer. It would eventually become one of the world's most widely used materials.
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TIL that not even 2 hours after the events of 9/11 many Canadian first responders were already making their way to New York to offer mutual aid to first responders. Police officers were given noth...
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TIL about Ulrich Inderbinen, a Swiss mountain guide who ascended the Matterhorn 370 times, making his last ascent of it when he was 90. He took up ski-racing for the first time at the age of 82 wh...
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TIL of Uniracers, a Nintendo published game by DMA Design, that got recalled, after Pixar sued for plagiarism because they copied designs from Pixar short "Red's Dream". This led to them being sol...
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TIL the average shot length in English language films has declined from about 12 seconds per shot in 1930 to about 2.5 seconds per shot in 2014.
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TIL there was an entire dog breed, called the Turnspit Dog, specifically bred to run on a wheel inside kitchen fireplaces to rotate roasting meat. They went extinct in the 1800s when spit-turning ...
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TIL that in 2023, Real Kakamora were considered the worst football club in the world and had lost every single match they played. On the verge of permanently folding, a longtime supporter created ...
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TIL that the idea that werewolves transform during the full moon only became widespread during the twentieth century, with it first being depicted on film in Frankenstein meets the Wolf Man.
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TIL in July 1952, mysterious lights over the Capitol outmaneuvered Air Force jets, prompting a military shoot-down order. Terrified citizens flooded Truman with pleas not to start an interstellar ...
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TIL about the “Conflict Kitchen,” a take-out restaurant at the University of Pittsburgh, that only served food from countries with which the United States was currently in conflict.
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TIL when NBA star Reggie Lewis died in 1993, his contract remained on the Boston Celtics' salary cap for 2 years because the league had no provision to void the contracts of deceased players, and ...
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TIL that Egyptian cotton exports surged from $7M to $77M between 1861–1865, giving Britain and France an alternative to Confederate cotton, undermining the South's "King Cotton" strategy and helpi...
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TIL pigs do not like to be picked up, and do not really like to be petted either.
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