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TIL that the voice actor who played Winnie the Pooh, Sterling Holloway, also voiced the Cheshire Cat, Kaa from The Jungle Book, and the Stork in Dumbo. Disney kept hiring the same guy for decades ...
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TIL A 19th-century woman (James Barry) practiced medicine for years disguised as a man in the British Army, and her biological sex was only discovered after death.
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TIL that Southwest Airlines Flight 1248 slid off the runway into an intersection because Midway was built before rules were made about distance between the runway and other objects. The weather wa...
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TIL: The United States operates an estimated 750 to 861 military bases and facilities across more than 80 foreign countries and territories-accounting for roughly 75-85% of all foreign military ba...
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TIL NASA astronauts Pete Conrad and Joe Kerwin were thrown off Skylab in 1973 when a jammed solar array suddenly deployed. Only their spacesuit tethers kept them from floating out into space. This...
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TIL that 32 bit time will run out in 2038, while 64 bit time will run out approximately 292 billion years from now
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TIL of Ekaltadeta, an extinct rat-kangaroo from Australia that lived ~25–5 million years ago. As it had buzz-saw-shaped premolars, it's hypothesized to have been either exclusively carnivorous or ...
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TIL about Pork-Cat syndrome, where a person who is allergic to cats has a reaction to pork. A protein in pork is so structurally similar to a protein in cat dander that the body mistakes the pork ...
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TIL Austria-Hungary lost a staggering 50-60% of it's entire army in the Brusilov Offensive.
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TIL about Princess Maria Karoline of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha (10 January 1899 – 6 June 1941). She had learning difficulties and was placed in a religious institution in 1938. In 1941, Nazis took her...
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TIL slavery in Saudi Arabia was not officially abolished until 1962
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TIL that every mature male antechinus, a species of marsupials, dies during their first mating season from literally mating themselves to death. The non-stop mating is so intense that not a single...
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TIL that the The clitoris is the only known human organ that has the singular purpose of providing pleasure and has more than 10,000 nerve fibers.
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TIL Sandy Island a non-existent island in the Pacific Ocean, appeared on maps for over a century. In 2012 Australian scientists sailed to its recorded location and discovered there was nothing the...
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TIL after losing the 2001 World Series, Yankees player Enrique Wilson flew home to the Dominican Republic earlier than he would've otherwise. Had the Yankees won and he stayed for their victory pa...
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TIL about Browser, the library cat. Adopted by a White Settlement, TX library in 2010, Browser was evicted from the library by the local govt in 2016, provoking a backlash that resulted in a unani...
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TIL that there are over 3,000 ‘tiger widows’ in the Sundarbans. These women, whose husbands have been killed by tigers, are often shunned by their communities over the belief that tiger widows are...
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TIL Bill Finger, who went uncredited for co-creating Batman until 2015, received his first Batman-related credit as a co-writer of an episode of the 1960s TV show
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TIL about United Flight 629. In 1955 a son blew up a plane with sticks of dynamite in checked luggage, killing 44 people, so he could collect life insurance on his mother who was a passenger.
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TIL that Ratnākaraśānti, an influential medieval Buddhist monk and philosopher, was known by the title "The Omniscient One of the Degenerate Age".
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TIL that a slice of cheesecake contains more calories of potential energy than an equal portion of nitroglycerin
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TIL that the UN considers Western Sahara to still be a Spanish colony (albeit under the designation of NSGT) despite Spain not exerting control since 1975
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TIL about Unit 684, a South Korean black ops group. Of the 31 initial members, 7 died during their harsh training. The 24 survivors later staged a mutiny, killing their guards and hijacking a bus ...
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TIL that in 1743 French surgeons tried to extend their role into the field of midwifery through denying instruction to female midwives, Angélique du Coudray organised a campaign to stop them. She ...
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TIL about The Straw Hat Riot of 1922 in NYC, caused by men wearing straw hats past the socially acceptable date of September 15. It lasted eight days, leading to many arrests and injuries. Gangs o...
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