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TIL that the serial killer John Wayne Gacy was politically active and at one point even met former First Lady Rosalynn Carter at a Polish Constitution Day Parade. He was given special security cle...
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TIL that Abraham Lincoln is the only US president to receive a patent. After repeatedly getting stranded on shallow Midwestern rivers as a young man, he invented inflatable air chambers designed t...
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TIL of Bruceploitation, a genre of films featuring Bruce Lee lookalikes that got popular after his death.
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TIL J. R. R. Tolkien adapted the name 'Gandalf' (among others) from a poem in the Poetic Edda, a seminal work of Old Norse mythology
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TIL that in 1959, the U.S. Post Office fired 3,000 letters via a repurposed nuclear cruise missile from a Navy submarine, delivering them 100 miles in 22 minutes. The Postmaster General predicted ...
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TIL That Despite It's Long Lived Cultural Heritage, The Country Of Italy Was Formed In 1861
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TIL that the look for some of David Bowie's iconic characters came from costume designer Ola Hudson, who is the mother of Slash from Guns N' Roses.
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TIL that in workplace meetings, people who speak earlier are often perceived as more confident and influential than those who speak later, even when saying the same ideas.
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TIL the earliest recorded evidence of the production of soap dates back to around 2800 BC in ancient Babylon
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TIL Spain holds an annual La Tomatina tomato-throwing festival every August, and Battle of the Oranges in Italy features thousands of people pelting each other with oranges during carnival celebra...
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TIL Leonardo DiCaprio and Robert De Niro are tied for the most appearances in movies that have been nominated for the Academy Award for Best Picture with 12.
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TIL of Kume no Heinai, a Japanese samurai who turned to Buddhism and had a stone-likeness of himself buried at a temple entrance for people to step on in order to atone for all of the killing he did.
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TIL that the “Hymn of Creation” in the Rigveda (c. 1500 BC) is the oldest example of agnostic skepticism regarding the creation of universe, directly questioning whether anyone really knows when a...
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TIL while attempting to land a role in The Wire, Idris Elba hid his English accent from series creator David Simon to prove he was "American enough" for the part. In his 4th audition, Simon found ...
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TIL that from the 1940s through the 1980s there was an appetite suppressant candy sold in the US. Its slogan “lose weight with Ayds” led to its market failure in the late 1980s, as Ayds is pronoun...
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TIL a dog named Joy was the only member of Nicholas II household to survive the family's execution. The Bolsheviks murdered the former Tsar, his wife,their five children,four retainers, and two ot...
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TIL during Hurricane Sandy, nurses manually kept newborn babies breathing while carrying them down nine flights of stairs after a New York hospital lost power.
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TIL the city of Sitka, Alaska, a city home to 8500 residents, is the largest city in the U.S. by total area. Its city limits include 2,870.3 sq mi of land, with a total area (including water) of 4...
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TIL in ww2, many Norwegian women gave birth to children with German fathers. After the war ended, both the Norwegian mothers and the 10-12k half German kids born during the war were heavily discri...
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TIL archaeologists discovered a 2,600-year-old human brain that had naturally preserved itself in wet mud even though the rest of the body had decomposed.
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Til a mouse can be thrown from an airplane and usually survive
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TIL the Fax machine was invented in 1843, about 33 years before the telephone in 1876. The comercial fax service was in France, in 1865, 11 years before the telephone.
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TIL that in 2024 a PhD student "accidently" discovered Valeriana - a Edinburgh sized hidden Mayan city in Mexico while browsing for data on the internet.
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TIL that Ayzur or Izoor was a king of Axum who reigned for half a day. He died due to suffocation caused by a crowd gathering around him on the day he was crowned.
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TIL Mariah Carey started out as a background singer. She landed her first gig singing backup for freestyle singer Brenda K. Starr. Previously, she worked part-time jobs to pay the rent and complet...
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