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TIL Lake Baikal has a phenomenon called “Baikal Zen,” where rocks appear frozen on tiny ice pedestals as the surrounding ice melts faster than the ice beneath the rock
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til that during world war 2 the british military produced five million linseed cakes infected with anthrax spores. the plan called operation vegetarian was designed to be dropped over germany to w...
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TIL astronomer Clifford Stoll wrote “Silicon Snake Oil” in 1995; he questions the long term benefits of the internet such as the practicality of E-Commerce & Digital News & Books. He would...
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TIL that our skeletal system regenerates every decade via process called as “Remodelling”
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TIL The farthest west the Mongol army advanced was the Elbe River. However, since their main objective was Vienna, they turned south instead of continuing westward.
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TIL of "Free Jimmy" a 2006 Norwegian animated film starring Woody Harrelson among others. It was well received and won several awards in Norway, but critically panned in english speaking media. Th...
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TIL that the son of the man who welcomed the puritans and fed them when they were starving had his head cut off and put on a spike for 20 years at the same location as the first thanksgiving.
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TIL that 877-Kars-4-Kids is a money front to siphon funds to Orthodox Jewish entities
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TIL about Peppercorn (law) where historically people paid a peppercorn in rent to symbolise a nominal fee. Still happens in ceremonies in the Masonic lodge of Bermuda, Australia's National Univers...
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TIL that in 1952, the "Great Smog of London" was so thick that it stopped all traffic, and even seeped into theaters, causing performances to be cancelled because the audience couldn't see the sta...
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TIL in 1911, Antarctic explorers endured a brutal winter to collect Emperor penguin eggs for scientific study, only for scientists to later find that the eggs did not confirm the hoped-for theory
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TIL the lyrics to the MASH theme song "Suicide is Painless" were written by the director's fifteen-year-old son, because the composer didn't think he could write anything stupid enough.
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TIL about carfentanil, an ultra-potent analogue of fentanyl. It is about 4,000 times stronger than heroin and 100 times more potent than fentanyl. It is strictly approved for veterinary use in lar...
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TIL Iry-Hor is the earliest historical figure known by name. He is believed to have been of royal lineage, ruling from Abydos around 3200 BCE — closer to the invention of writing than to the pyram...
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TIL of the Bone Wars (1877–1892), a feud between paleontologists E.D. Cope and O.C. Marsh featuring bribery, spying, and reported dynamiting of fossil sites. Both died ruined, but their work led t...
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Today I learned there are more egg laying mammals than just the Platypus. They belong to the order Monotremata and only 5 species exist today, The Platypus, and the 4 echidna species. All only fou...
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TIL that Daniel Handler aka Lemony Snicket (A Series of Unfortunate Events) played accordion on the Magnetic Fields album 69 Love Songs
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TIL about George Owen Squier, a US Major General who in addition to helping establish the Aeronautical Division, U.S. Signal Corps, the first organisational ancestor of the U.S. Air Force, also st...
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TIL that the USS Pueblo is the only activity commissioned ship in the Navy still being held by another country after 58 years since its capture.
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TIL there are Crustaceans only known from their larval forms, with no adults being found after over 100 years of research [although they're known to be related to Barnacles].
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TIL the oldest known stone tools are about 3.3 million years old, older than the entire Homo genus
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TIL the THUMS Islands (California) are artificial islands used for oil drilling. A theme park architect concealed the oil drilling with elaborate landscaping, waterfalls, colored lighting and fake...
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TIL in 2001 Sharon Stone arranged a private visit to the LA Zoo's komodo dragon pen for her then-husband, who'd always wanted to see one up close. However, the dragon attacked him by biting his fo...
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TIL nicotine use is so common among people with schizophrenia they try to make treatments that mimick the effect
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TIL Coca Cola once made “MagiCans” that secretly contained cash prizes instead of soda. To stop people from spotting winners by weight, they filled part of the cans with foul-smelling chlorinated ...
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