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TIL the Cravat is named after a Croatian military unit. The Cravats were working as mercenary's during the 30 Years War and known for wearing a necktie called a "tour de cou." The traditional Croa...
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TIL Cardinal Serra nearly accidentaly became pope during the conclave of 1513 after several conclavists voted for him as the "most unworthy" and thus most unlikely to get elected, as they were unw...
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TIL that Caligula’s real name was Gaius. When he was 2-3 years old, he accompanied his father on a military campaign wearing a miniature uniform devised by his mother, complete with little army bo...
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TIL male serotine bats cannot penetrate females because their penises are too large, so they reproduce by pressing their genitals together instead
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TIL the City of St. Louis, Missouri separated from St. Louis County in 1877 to form an independent city, limiting it to 66 sq mi. Peaking at 856K residents in 1950, St. Louis City has declined to ...
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TIL the shrike, AKA the butcherbird, will hang its prey and consume it later, in some cases to allow time for poisons to dissipate.
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TIL a family of three, flying out of NYC, canceled their weekend trip to Fort Lauderdale after they negotiated with Delta Air Lines to each be paid $3,650 in gift cards of their choice for volunta...
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TIL Afshan Azad, who played Padma Patil in Harry Potter, was threatened with death threats by her father and brother after they discovered she was dating a non-Muslim man. Azad's brother got six m...
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TIL the one scene that Steven Spielberg directed that made him cry on set was in Lincoln (2012); it's a four-minute speech given by Daniel Day-Lewis as Abraham Lincoln trying to explain to his cab...
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TIL that switching between tasks can take up to 15 minutes for your brain to reorient, making multitasking less efficient than focused work
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TIL the Maldives became the first country in the world to enforce a nationwide generational smoking ban, barring anyone born on or after January 1, 2007 from ever buying, using or smoking tobacco....
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til crooked teeth and shrinking human jaws are actually a recent lifestyle disease caused by modern soft diets and not just genetics
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TIL that torpedoes (the weapons) are named after torpedo rays (the fish), not the other way around
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TIL that Eagle, a supercomputer built and operated by Microsoft, runs on Linux
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TIL that the strategy board game Risk was invented by the same man who directed the acclaimed short film The Red Balloon (Albert Lamorisse). He created the game and won the Oscar in the same year.
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TIL about underwater Cleaning Stations, locations where all kinds of sealife gather to be cleaned by smaller creatures, kinda like a bathhouse or a carwash
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TIL Harrison Ford worked as a cameraman and production assistant for The Doors on their 1968 concert tour
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TIL Argentina's fertility rate fell from 2.3 in 2014 to 1.23 in 2024. In just 10 years Argentina's fertility rate went from being above replacement level fertility (2.1) to extremely below replace...
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TIL the morning of Ayrton Senna’s fatal racing accident, he met with his fellow racers to discuss reestablishing the Grand Prix Drivers’ Association as an attempt to increase safety in F1. Senna, ...
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Til I learned that President Truman was heavily involved with all aspects of his presidential library. He would work 5-6 days a week there, he personally trained staff, he held impromptu press con...
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TIL the first stock ticker machines used telegraph lines to continuously print abbreviated company names and stock prices onto paper strips, allowing investors in different cities to receive near ...
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TIL that the first Academy Awards in 1929 was just a 15-minute dinner with 270 guests and $5 tickets, with winners announced months earlier. MGM’s Louis B. Mayer said: "I found that the best way t...
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TIL that at the Beatles last stadium concert at Candlestick Park, there were 7,000 unsold tickets and the promoter lost money. They played for just 33 minutes.
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TIL approximately three million German prisoners of war were captured by the Soviet Union during World War II. The POWs were employed as forced labor in the Soviet wartime economy and post-war rec...
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TIL that in 1595, Scotland introduced a tax colloquially known as "buttock mail." It was a fine levied by church courts on people caught having sex outside of marriage
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