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TIL that Private David B. Barkeley, the first Hispanic American to receive the Medal of Honor, earned it at age 19 by swimming across the Meuse River under enemy fire to scout German positions. He...
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TIL the last surviving eunuch of the Chinese Imperial Court lived until 1996
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TIL Hall of Fame pitcher Hal Newhouser was so convinced of future Hall of Fame baseball player Derek Jeter’s potential that he quit his scouting job with the Houston Astros in protest after the te...
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TIL besides artificial insemination that is used on most dairy farms, some farms also perform embryo transfer. Elite cows will be given hormone treatments to produce multiple embryos, which are “f...
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TIL bdelloid rotifers are microscopic animals that have gone without sex for over 80 million years by stealing genes from bacteria, fungi, and plants, with up to 10% of their genome comes from the...
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TIL that in 2021, 11-year-old Laney Perdue became the sole survivor of a plane crash thanks to her father, who wrapped her in a bear hug as the plane was going down. When she was recovered alive f...
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TIL that John Surratt Jr., A conspirator in Abraham Lincoln’s Assassination, fled to Canada, then England, then joined the Papal Guard in Rome, and in Alexandria, Egypt he was arrested. He was sen...
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TIl that veteran Hollywood actress Mercedes McCambridge created the voice of the demon in "The Exorcist" by swallowing raw eggs, smoking and drinking heavily, and letting the producers keep her in...
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TIL At some point by the 2nd century BC, ancient Greek dramatists stopped producing new plays every year for the Dionysia festival and began to stage only remakes of old classics. Instead of award...
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TIL that Hank Williams' Your Cheatin Heart, Otis Redding' (Sitting On) The Dock of the Bay and Janis Joplin's Me and Bobby McGee were all released after their respective singer's death
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TIL your fingers wrinkle in water to help you grip wet objects more efficiently - not because your skin absorbs water and swells. The wrinkles are caused by blood vessels constricting under the skin.
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TIL the first known feature-length narrative film to break the fourth wall was 1918 silent film, Men Who Have Made Love to Me, where star Mary MacLane played a fictionalized version of herself and...
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TIL that viruses can have viruses too, and they are called virophages. similarly to how viruses infect us or other creatures, these virophages attach to larger viruses such as Mimivirus and infect...
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TIL that the head of a Turkish soldier killed at Gallipoli was anonymously handed in to Australian police
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TIL that General and future President William Henry Harrison was the only USA Statesman advocating direct military assistance to the Greeks fighting their War of Independence
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TIL in 1975 the Metric Conversion Act was signed into law. It declares the metric system as the USA’s preferred weights and measures system. However it is not a mandate and all metrification is vo...
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TIL 407 million year old fossil called Prototaxites and scientists think it belonged to an entirely separate branch of life
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TIL in 2017 Perth Zoo was put on lockdown when two orangutans briefly escaped their enclosure. A 5-year-old male orangutan fell over a barrier & into a garden bed outside the enclosure. His mo...
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TIL physicist Karl Schwarzschild solved Einstein's field equations while dying of disease on the WWI Eastern Front. His solution predicted black holes. He wrote to Einstein: "the war treated me ki...
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TIL of the concept of moral luck, where a person is treated differently depending on the outcome of an event over which they did not have complete control.
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TIL Adele's album '25' is the only album ever to sell more than one million copies in a single week more than once; '25' accomplished the feat three times.
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TIL that because his father was born illegitimately, Machiavelli himself did not enjoy full citizenship rights.
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TIL that Welsh mathematician Robert Recorde, who invented the equals sign and introduced the plus and minus signs to English speakers in 1557, was also controller of the Royal Mint for a time befo...
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TIL about Zhu Changxun, Prince of Fu. He was the third and favorite son of the Wanli Emperor. In 1641, he was captured and eaten by rebels. Prince Fu's flesh was boiled together with a deer's and ...
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TIL that the 98-mile U.S. Route 57 (US 57) in Texas begins at the Rio Grande in Eagle Pass and seamlessly connects to Mexican Federal Highway 57 (Carretera Federal 57) across the border. They are ...
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