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TIL that while Michael Jackson’s Bad officially holds the U.S. record for 5 number-one singles, it actually produced 7 different number-one hits globally when including international charts. The o...
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TIL in 1497 Leonardo da Vinci invented the miter lock gate for canals. Instead of sliding vertical doors, he designed two angled swinging leaves that use upstream water pressure to self-seal the j...
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TIL America's deadliest sporting event was a Cal-Stanford football game. Dozens fell onto or into a furnace of molten glass. 23 people died and more than 100 were injured.
(www.sfgate.com)
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TIL that the least productive farming counties in the Colorado River Basin use about 25% of the basin’s crop water but generate only around 3% of its crop revenue. Three years of saving this water...
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TIL Hummingbirds are found naturally only in the Americas.
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TIL that Leonhard Euler was so insanely prolific that after his death in 1783, the Saint Petersburg Academy of Sciences had such a massive backlog of his unpublished papers that it took them nearl...
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TIL that Canada has several ridiclous names for some of its lakes, such as This Lake, That Lake, Another Lake, And Another Lake, Ugly Lake, Stupid Lake, Big Ass Lake, and P*ssy Lake.
(geonames.nrcan.gc.ca)
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TIL in 1957, the Blue Hawaii cocktail was created when a representative of the Dutch distiller Bols asked a bartender, Harry Yee to develop a drink using its blue curaçao liqueur.
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TIL Pope Pius II(1405–1464) was a prolific writer, known for being the only sitting Pope to author a memoir before Pope Francis in 2025. Besides that, he wrote several comedies as well as erotic p...
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TIL that our cells contain mitochondria which evolved from bacteria billions of years ago. Mitochondria still make bacterial-like proteins which sometimes fool our immune cells to overreact and ca...
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TIL that Timothy McVeigh, the OKC bomber, ate two Taco Bell tacos after finding out he had been sentenced to death on his way to prison. He scratched off a promo ticket on the side and found out h...
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TIL that in 1833 a Boston ship owned by "Ice King" Frederic Tudor carried pond ice ~16,000 miles to Calcutta; ~80 tons melted but 100 arrived and sold for a fortune.
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TIL on July 31, 1976, the night before Colorado’s 100th anniversary, thousands of people celebrating in Big Thompson Canyon had no warning before a 30-foot wall of water swept through the narrow g...
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TIL every year, 22 billion kilometres of toilet paper are used. This is enough to wrap around Earth 50,000 times or cover 30 journeys to the Sun
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TIL The Bayeux Tapestry is believed to have a section missing. A reconstruction of what the missing piece likely showed, the coronation of William as King, was made in 2013.
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TIL that inside New Zealand’s Waitomo Cave, thousands of endemic glowworms cover the walls with pinpricks of light, giving the effect of an underground starry night.
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TIL the 1783 Laki eruption in Iceland killed over half the country's livestock and at least one-fifth of its people, then lowered global temperatures enough to cause crop failures across Europe.
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TIL the footballer Jan Vennegoor of Hesselink got his name because of a marriage between the Vennegoor and Hesselink farming families and they kept both surnames because of their prestige. Of mean...
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TIL that the Mercury Seven astronauts calculated that one of the seven would die during Project Mercury. Gus Grissom did die as an astronaut, albeit on the ground during Project Apollo.
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TIL Karen Carpenter's heart failure was caused in part by abuse of Ipecac
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TIL of “devotio,” an ancient Roman ritual in which a general vowed to sacrifice his own life in battle—along with the enemy army—to the gods of the underworld in exchange for victory. Livy preserv...
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TIL that the iconic, cinematic "Roundball Rock" theme song for The NBA on NBC was composed by John Tesh after he woke up in the middle of the night in a French hotel room in 1989 and had to hum th...
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TIL an English farmer Winston Howes in 1995, lost his wife of 33 years and planted 6,000 oak trees on his farm forming a secret heart pointing toward her childhood home. It was largely unknown sin...
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TIL that the ancient Egyptian solar calendar lasted for so long that it repeatedly drifted back into perfect alignment. This took 1,461 years and was a major religious event.
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TIL an American soldier stole the French flag from the Arc De Triomph after the liberation of Paris, and didn’t return it until 2010
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