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TIL that Emperor Nero entered the Olympic chariot race in 67 AD with a team of ten horses, despite the event normally being a four-horse race. He was thrown from his chariot during the competition...
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TIL that an orphaned seal raised by humans could say “hello there”, “come over here”, and “Hoover” (his name).
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TIL a Great Dane received a medal in World War II for peeing on a fire bomb, saving her family.
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TIL about Project West Ford, a 1960s U.S. military project that dispersed 350 million copper needles into space to act as a "belt" for long-distance radio communication, an experiment that caused ...
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TIL that in the early 1910s, Oklahoma had more dues paying members of the Socialist Party than any other state in the US, outnumbering much larger industrial states like New York and Illinois.
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TIL that Deep Purple’s Ian Gillan recorded all his Jesus vocals for the 1970 Jesus Christ Superstar album in under 3 hours, and then performed with his band that night. He was later asked to repri...
(somethingelsereviews.com)
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TIL when Adolf Hitler attended the wedding of Oswald Mosley and Diana Mitford, he gave the couple a framed photo of himself as a wedding gift.
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TIL Johann Burchard meticulously recorded all the provisions given to each Cardinal during the 1492 conclave: Their food provisions were four boxes of sweets, a jar of sugared pine-seeds, sugar ca...
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TIL that 31,000 years ago, someone in Borneo successfully performed a surgical amputation on a child who then survived for another 6 to 9 years.
(www.nature.com)
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TIL Killer Stephen McCullagh tried to cover his tracks with a staged YouTube livestream
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TIL that a con-man took credit for allegedly organizing the 1911 theft of the Mona Lisa, as well as allegedly commissioning six forgeries sold to capitalists like JP Morgan
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TIL that 90% of new drugs fail clinical trials.
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TIL that there was a referendum in 1916 in Denmark to sell the Danish West Indies (now United States Virgin Islands) to the US. Only those living in Denmark (including the Faroe Islands) can vote ...
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TIL in the 1920s, Coco Chanel accidentally got a tan, and helped inspire the trend of sunbathing. Soon "sunlight therapy" was prescribed for almost every ailment from fatigue to tuberculosis. Befo...
(www.theguardian.com)
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TIL North America has exactly one carnivorous butterfly — the Harvester — whose caterpillar doesn't eat plants at all, but hunts and eats aphids.
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TIL that in 2009, France’s nuclear-armed SSBN Le Triomphant collided underwater with Britain’s HMS Vanguard in the Atlantic. France initially reported that Triomphant had hit an “immersed object (...
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TIL about earthquake lights, reported luminous phenomena that seem to occur during seismic events. There are multiple theories, none conclusive, explaining their causes.
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TIL that the Song formerly known as "The most mysterious Song on the Internet", hunted down for 17 years, was found in 2024. It is called "Subways of your mind" and was recorded by the German new ...
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TIL squirrels have shut down the NASDAQ stock exchange twice
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TIL that according to researchers, even a "small" regional nuclear exchange could cause a nuclear winter that would threaten over two billion people and cause 10–20% of animal species to go extinct.
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TIL that the small town of Wilberforce OH, home to 2000 people, is also home to 3 of the 5 HBCU's above the Mason-Dixon Line, one of which was the first college to be owned and operated by African...
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TIL that in 1950 a cargo ship built for 35 crewmembers and 12 passengers took aboard more than 14,000 Korean refugees, packed chest-to-chest and atop jet-fuel drums. It crossed a minefield with no...
(www.maritime.dot.gov)
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TIL that Ann Hibbens, a wife in Puritan Boston, was executed for witchery after suing some carpenters for overcharging her and winning the lawsuit.
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TIL George Mallory reportedly answered “Because it’s there” when asked why he wanted to climb Everest while touring the U.S. to raise funds. He perished on Everest in 1924, likely during the desce...
(www.thisdayinquotes.com)
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TIL scientists chemically reconstructed the exact 3,500-year-old embalming scent used on an ancient Egyptian noblewoman's mummy from residue in her burial jars, then let museum visitors smell it i...
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