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TIL an estimated 73.9% of American homes with a TV set tuned in to watch the I Love Lucy episode “Lucy Goes to the Hospital”. Approximately 44 million viewers in total and 15 million more then the...
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TIL that the northernmost town in Europe (Longyearbyen, Svalbard, Norway, pop. 2,817) was named for an American businessman, John Munro Longyear
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TIL the name Cleopatra is a feminine variation of the name Patroclus
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TIL India has the second-highest USFDA-approved pharmaceutical manufacturing facilities worldwide, second only to the US.
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TIL that Chinese Checkers was invented in Germany and was given the name as a marketing scheme. They were originally going to name it "Hop Ching checkers".
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TIL After Montana banned certain flags on government property, the city of Missoula adopted a rainbow as their official municipal flag
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TIL that in 1803 , scientist Giovanni Aldini performed public electrical experiments on the corpse of an executed criminal , The shocks caused the dead man's jaw to quiver , his limbs to thrash , ...
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TIL that long-term night-shift work is associated with a higher risk of dementia, including Alzheimer’s. One large study found that people who always worked nights had about twice the Alzheimer’s ...
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TIL despite selling more than 30 million copies and massive popularity, Britney Spears's first four albums only spawned one #1 Top 40 hit in the US
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TIL of Funistrada, a fictitious food item inserted in a U.S. Army survey circa 1974 "to provide an estimate of how much someone will respond to a word which sounds like a food name or will answer ...
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TIL that close gravitational flybys can substantially alter planetary orbits—and, in sufficiently strong encounters, can eject planets from their host systems—even without a collision.
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TIL of the Berenike Buddha, a statue of Buddha found in a temple of Isis in Roman Egypt made from Greek Marble with a dedication nearby in Greek and Sanskrit dating itself to the reign of Philip t...
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TIL that "mammoth" bones discovered in Alaska in 1951 turned out to be whale bones 70 years later.
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TIL that your brain can control your pupils without you consciously knowing it, but researchers have also demonstrated that you can sometimes learn to control them voluntarily through biofeedback.
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TIL the first patent pool in American history was formed in 1856 because four sewing machine companies had sued each other into total deadlock. For five years nobody in the US could build a sewing...
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TIL that 50 unpublished texts documenting an Inuit language from 1897–1898 were sitting in a university archive for over a century before a linguist realized their significance.
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TIL a copy of the 1649 death warrant of Charles I is displayed in the robing room used by the monarch (during the State Opening of Parliament in the Palace of Westminster) as a ceremonial reminder...
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TIL Hitler's half-niece Geli Raubal moved into Hitler's Munich apartment in 1929 - who was 19 years her senior. As Hitler rose to power, he was domineering and possessive of Raubal, keeping contro...
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TIL The first private bathrooms began to appear in Rome during the Renaissance as a consequence of people seeking privacy for the treatment of syphilis. Pope Julius II was the first to build a sec...
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TIL that Edgar Bergen, famous ventriloquist, left his daughter Candice Bergen (Murphy Brown) out of his will, but bequeathed $10,000 to his ventriloquist dummy, Charley McCarthy.
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TIL that people with dissociative identity disorder (DID) can show different physical responses depending on their identity state, including differences in pain, vision, heart rate and even report...
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Today I learned that in 23 US states, pets can serve as a legal witnesses to a wedding
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TIL the platypus truly has no functional stomach. Its esophagus connects directly to the small intestine, bypassing the acid-secreting chamber found in most vertebrates. This unusual trait is shar...
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TIL about a 1 in 7000 mutation in the FNIP1 gene thats naturally mimics the weight loss effects of drugs like Ozempic. A mutation of this gene causes the body to burn fuel more efficiently, result...
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TIL that, in 447, while Attila the Hun was on his way to conquer Constantinople, an earthquake ruined the city's walls. Chariot racing fans of rival teams competed to see who could rebuild the bes...
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