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TIL that Project Graham is a lifelike figure depicting what a human would look like if the species evolved to survive car crashes. It was made to symbolize the vulnerabilities of the human body in...
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TIL Arsenio Hall filed a $5 million defamation lawsuit against Sinéad O'Connor after she claimed he had fueled Prince's drug habit and had also spiked his drink at a party at Eddie Murphy's house....
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TIL that in 1942, Richard Korherr delivered a 16-page document to Heinrich Himmler reporting that over 1.45 million Jews had already been "processed".
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TIL: J.R.R. Tolkien and Sir Mortimer Wheller together solved the mystery of a 4th century stolen and "cursed" ring while he was at Oxford, often cited as his inspiration for "The One Ring"
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TIL in Nazi Germany, wages were below pre-Depression levels, workweek hours increased from 40 to 60 hours a week, and workers could not choose or quit their jobs
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TIL that in Austria, there was a law where the members of the House of Habsburg-Lorraine lost their property and privileges after the founding of the republic in 1919. Now, members of the house ca...
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TIL about Alice in Wonderland Syndrome, a condition where you perceive yourself or the world as smaller or larger than they are
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TIL the third largest office building in the world is in Auburn Hills, Michigan. Behind only the Pentagon and Surat Diamond Bourse in India
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TIL Cats can’t taste sweetness because they lack a functional sweet taste receptor gene
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TIL in 1877 a super El Niño, cited as one of the most intense on record, caused massive global disruption and famine that resulted in over 50 million deaths
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TIL laser is an acronym for Light Amplification by Stimulated Emission of Radiation
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TIL Cambodian Prince Norodom Chantaraingsey refused to surrender to the Khmer Rouge or flee the country and vanished while fighting them
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TIL Judit Polgár's favorite chess opening as a child was the King’s Gambit and she became a Grandmaster with that opening. Polgár always remained an e4 player, saying it was up to my opponent to c...
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TIL that as long as it has enough oxygen, your heart can continue to beat even when it is separated from your body. This is because the heart has its own electrical impulse.
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TIL actor Taylor Lautner married a nurse named Taylor Dome. Before their wedding, Taylor Lautner stated that Taylor Dome planned to take his surname, resulting in both partners now being named Tay...
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TIL about Tommy McHugh, a British man who took a dump so hard that he blew open an artery in his frontal and temporal lobes of his brain, causing a stroke. After doctors fixed it in surgery, he wo...
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TIL that in 1583 an insurance company insured the life of William Gybbon for a period of one year. When he died a few days short of a year later, the company insisted that a lunar year of 354 days...
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TIL two BP workers were charged with 11 counts of manslaughter after the Deepwater Horizon oil spill. The charges were later dropped.
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TIL the Nooksack Giant, measured at 465 feet (142 m), was the tallest tree ever reliably recorded.
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TIL Parents in the US consistently rank as the world's unhappiest.
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TIL Sears had a working e-commerce site before Amazon was a threat and still went bankrupt because its own CEO spent 15 years extracting $5 billion from it
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TIL: In 2018, Former NFL Player Rae Carruth Sent a 15-Page Letter of Intent Requesting Custody of the Son He Tried to Kill.
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TIL of the falcon sex hat. Due to captive birds tending to imprint on their caretakers a hat that they could wear was developed to allow for easy copulation and semen collection to aid in breeding...
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TIL that in 1893, President Grover Cleveland had surgery to remove a tumor from his mouth. The surgery took place in secret on a yacht so as to not cause the American people to panic and worsen an...
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TIL about a 750 lb bear in Japan which killed numerous villagers within a weeks time. After killing it, the villagers ate him as ‘revenge’.
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