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TIL most people in France did not speak French as recently as 1794, when only 11% of the population of France spoke fluent French. Instead, most people spoke regional languages like Occitan, Breto...
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TIL the Matilija Dam in California, built in 1947, once held a capacity of 7,018 acre⋅ft. However due to sedimentation by 2021 the reservoir completely silted up & the dam is no longer able to...
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TIL the guy who invented Coca-Cola was a morphine addict who thought cocaine would cure him. Then he marketed the result as a "brain tonic."
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TIL Michael Levin and his lab team grew an eye on on the tail of a tadpole. By altering the bioelectric voltage of the cells, they triggered the growth of a completely new eye. When the tadpole mo...
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TIL Thomas Jefferson had a pet Mockingbird named Dick that lived in the White House and would eat food from his lips
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TIL about the SS Baychimo, a 1,300-ton cargo steamer that was abandoned in 1931 and became one of history's longest-running "ghost ships." It remained afloat and unmanned for 38 years, drifting al...
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TIL According to the Roman grammarian Festus, Zeuxis (was a late 5th-century- early 4th-century BCE Greek artist famed for his ability to create images that appeared highly realistic) died laughin...
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TIL in 2014 it was shown for the first time that a species of dolphin, the long-finned pilot whale, has more neocortical neurons than any mammal studied to date including humans. It is generally a...
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TIL Groupon has lost more than 95% of its value since it rejected Google's $6 billion offer and instead went public with a $17.8 billion market cap 15 years ago.
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TIL of the Lone Woman of San Nicolas Island who lived alone for 18 years on an island off the coast of California from 1835 to 1853. She was the last surviving member of the Nicoleño and last nati...
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TIL that most hybrid cars use Atkinson-cycle combustion engines, which are more efficient but less power-dense. The electric motor helps compensate during acceleration.
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TIL that Oxygen was originally a mass-extinction event 2.4 billion years ago, called the "Great Oxygenation Event" which introduced free oxygen to the atmosphere and was toxic to nearly all life a...
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TIL despite Poppi being marketed as a prebiotic soda in the US, it is not marketed as such in the UK and Ireland due to not having sufficient fibre for a prebiotic claim.
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TIL that the main parachute when skydiving fails 1 out of every 1,000 jumps. Inside almost every Deployment Bag is an Automatic Activation Device (AAD) that will automatically deploy a reserve par...
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TIL that Switzerland made it illegal to boil lobsters alive.
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TIL the Māori have a Queen.
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TIL China National Tobacco Corporation contributes ~$220B/year in taxes + profits to the Chinese state, making it arguably the single most financially valuable government asset on Earth
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TIL of historian Iris Chang, whose work on the 1937 Nanjing Massacre is credited with fundamentally shifting the Western historical record of WWII and bringing the events to global prominence.
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TIL that China consumes 46% of cigarettes in the entire world at a rate of 2.4 trillion a year.
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TIL : That until 1978, the Mormon church owned hospitals that kept blood donations separated by race, so white members would not receive black people's blood, disqualifying them from the priesthood.
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TIL about Juan Garrido, an Afro-Spaniard conquistador. He participated in the Spanish conquest of Puerto Rico, Florida and Cortez’s siege of Tenochtitlan. Garrido is also credited as being the fir...
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TIL it's misconception that Puritans were sexual prudes; they believed sex was reserved for marriage. In New England divorce petitions often cited male impotence and a man was once banished for re...
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TIL that according to director Steven Lisberger, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences refused to nominate Tron (1982) for a special-effects Academy Award because they were see as having...
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TIL that during the American Revolution, Washington didn't rely on guerilla warfare and most battles were fought in the European style.
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TIL the earliest mentions of almond milk date back to the 13th century and is even mentioned under the secondary definition of "milk" in Samuel Johnson's Dictionary in 1755
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