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TIL the term 'meritocracy' (governance based on talent or ability rather than social class), was originally coined as a pejorative.
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TIL the authorship of the song "The House Of The Rising Sun" a chart-topping track popularised by The Animals, is a mystery, going back a century or more.
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TIL BMW drivers are statistically the worst drivers, by brand, in the United States (followed closely by RAM and Tesla)
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TIL that there is a color named "Olo" that only five people have ever seen. It can only be produced by using lasers to selectively stimulate only the M cone retinal cells, which, in natural sight,...
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TIL about the railroad speeder which is a small railcar used around the world by track inspectors and work crews to move quickly to and from work sites.
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TIL of Positive Lightning, which accounts for less than 5% of all cloud-to-ground strikes, but is up 10x as powerful and can hit the ground more than 25 miles from its cloud.
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TIL that roughly 460,000 people died from diarrheal diseases in India in 2023. As staggering as that number is, it actually represents a 68.3% reduction from 1990, when an estimated 1.46 million p...
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TIL that 30 years before the Black Death, Europe suffered the Great Famine of 1315–1317. Relentless rain ruined crops and killed livestock. Starvation became so severe that reports tell of infanti...
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TIL that in 1963, a Parisian stray cat named Félicette became the first cat to reach space, traveling nearly 96 miles above Earth before returning safely by parachute.
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TIL the Torá have expressed interest in reviving their language, but no one seemed to have enough memory of Torá to get anywhere with the idea. In 2006, there were two fluent speakers left. In 201...
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TIL North Korea captured a US warship, the USS Pueblo, and displays it as a museum ship. It remains a commissioned American warship.
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TIL about the University of the Virgin Islands which was named a HBCU (Historically Black College or University) by the US Congress in 1986 and is the only HBCU outside the continental US.
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TIL Steven Spielberg was the first person outside of the development team to play the SEGA Saturn classic, NiGHTS Into Dreams. He used a prototype version of the console's 3D controller, which wou...
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Today I Learned About This Extremely Rare Neurological Condition Makes Faces Appear Distorted or 'Like a Demon'. Less Than 100 People Have Ever Had It.
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TIL termite fumigation gas has a GWP of ~4800. A tent worth is equivalent to driving a 25 mpg car almost 100,000 miles
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TIL India has the most universities in the world, with a staggering 8,410 universities
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TIL that the village of Shingo in Japan, maintains a site with two burial mounds traditionally claimed to be the grave of Jesus and a second grave associated with his brother; the local legend hol...
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TIL famed occultist Aleister Crowley, dubbed “the wickedest man in the world,” was also a pioneering mountaineer who took part in the first serious expedition to climb K2. The world’s second-highe...
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TIL about the Negros fruit dove, an incredibly rare species of dove of which only one female specimen was ever found. In 1953, the female was shot dead next to its presumed mate, and the male was ...
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TIL that Led Zeppelin drummer John Bonham suffered from intense homesickness, to the point of crying on tour in the US. His manager, Peter Grant, bribed him with expensive gifts to keep touring an...
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TIL: There is a Catholic chapel that contains the bones of more than 40,000 people, and features a chandelier made ENTIRELY OF HUMAN BONES
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TIL Milan developed around a Celtic sanctuary, Medhelanon, an ellipse aligned to the stars. One axis pointed toward the heliacal rising of Antares, the other toward Capella. Traces of this ancient...
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TIL about blobitecture, a movement in architecture featuring amoeba-like shapes
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TIL of the Siege of Dunkirk (44-45). From after D Day in 1944 until the end of the war, Dunkirk held out and was not captured/liberated by the Allies in France until the war was over
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TIL about a freak “heat burst” storm phenomenon that struck a small town in Kopperl, Texas in the middle of the night on June 15, 1960. Winds suddenly hit 70 MPH, and temperatures got so hot they ...
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