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TIL of Muggsy Bogues, a 5’3” NBA player who played for 14 seasons and frequently ranked among the top players for assists and steals
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TIL Brian Johnson sang on a Hoover vacuum commercial before he joined AC/DC
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TIL that in 2006, a study found that the San Andreas fault had reached the sufficient stress level for another "Big One", an earthquake with a magnitude greater then 7.0 on the Richter scale, and ...
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TIL Taco Bell invented "white people tacos." Founder Glen Bell copied a Mexican restaurant's hard-shell recipe, automated the assembly line with custom frying baskets, and mass-marketed the ground...
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TIL President John F. Kennedy had two caskets because the first one, an expensive bronze model rushed to Parkland Memorial Hospital in Dallas, was heavily stained and damaged by bodily fluids on f...
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TIL the developer of the Japanese Shine Muscat grape never registered it for overseas protection, which made it ineligible for overseas royalties. As a result, about 10 billion yen is lost annuall...
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TIL during the Korean War, American and Greek soldiers held Outpost Harry, a strategic position about 60 miles northeast of Seoul, against Chinese assaults. At times outnumbered 30:1, they endured...
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TIL that after WWII, mutton consumption declined and almost disappeared in the US. American GI's were fed canned mutton during the war and looked down on the meat ever since.
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TIL Ray Bradbury's short story "There Will Come Soft Rains" published in 1950 depicts the aftermath of a nuclear war. It depicts a smart house of the future that makes breakfast and cleans the dis...
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TIL that heavy cannabis users have been found to have nearly four times the odds of developing schizophrenia or psychosis compared to non-users, according to a Kings College Meta-Analysis of over ...
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TIL in the hit 1992 horror movie Candyman, actor Tony Todd had real, live bees inside his mouth for the famous scene where bees crawl out of Candyman's mouth. He negotiated a contract clause that ...
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TIL In 1862, an enslaved man named Robert Smalls stole a heavily armed Confederate military ship He disguised himself as the captain, sailed past multiple Confederate forts using secret hand signa...
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TIL that working night shifts is linked to faster biological aging, and night shift workers lose almost a year of life expectancy by their mid 40s compared to day workers.
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TIL a geologist was ridiculed for decades for claiming the Pacific Northwest was carved by a catastrophic Ice Age flood. NASA satellite images proved him right in the 1970s. He finally received ge...
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TIL that at the funeral of a student who died attempting to prove the Riemann Hypothesis, mathematician David Hilbert gave a eulogy that turned into a math lecture: "In fact... let us consider a f...
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TIL that after fabricating a water shortage for insurance fraud in 1781, the crew of the slave ship Zong threw over 130 enslaved people overboard, and the owners later filed an insurance claim for...
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TIL that wired headphones can inadvertently function as a crystal radio during thunderstorms, playing audible AM broadcasts through idle devices even when no media is active, as lightning-induced ...
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TIL on May 19, 1975, West German Karl-Hans Riehm broke the hammer throw world record three times in one competition (and all six of his throws surprassed the old world record by another athlete th...
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TIL about the Altamura bread war, a commercial dispute between McDonald's and a local bakery in Altamura, Italy. Despite having more resources, McDonald's was obligated to cease operations in the ...
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TIL the remains of birds following a strike with an aircraft is called Snarge
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TIL the main reason we know Mark Twain's "Voice" is because his old neighbor, actor William Gillette, went around doing impressions of him and eventually got recorded
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Today I learned that Fillmore, the hippie van from Pixar’s Cars, was originally named “Waldmire” after artist Bob Waldmire whose work often focused on Route 66. Waldmire, a vegetarian, refused to ...
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TIL the genesis of the Chappelle Show sketch with Wayne Brady came from his anger at Dave Chappelle for a Paul Mooney joke about him. Brady feels the famous sketch showed his larger range and open...
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TIL that what appears to be a forest of 47,000 quaking aspen trees in Utah is actually a single living organism called Pando. Every tree is genetically identical and connected by one massive root ...
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TIL King Kong vs. Godzilla (1962) was originally conceived by Willis O'Brien as King Kong Meets Frankenstein. He was unable to get funding, and producer John Beck eventually sold the idea to Toho ...
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