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TIL that in 1954, a woman in Alabama was hit by a meteorite while lying on her couch
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TIL the entire Abu Simbel temple complex in Egypt was moved in it's entirety to protect it from flooding
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TIL A Canadian university founded a learning exchange in Vancouver's most impoverished neighbourhood so students, staff and faculty residents can trade knowledge and collaborate on projects with r...
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TIL a 2000 Australian oil spill spawned a call for ~100 penguin sweaters, thousands came instead, now sold as toy-penguin fundraisers. A 2011 NZ spill skipped sweaters entirely, using heat lamps. ...
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TIL Scott Fitzgerald admired Irish writer James Joyce so much, he once drunkenly tried to throw himself out a window at a 1928 dinner party to prove his devotion to him
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TIL K2 earned the nickname “Savage Mountain” after American climber George Bell called it “a savage mountain that tries to kill you.” In 1939, climber Dudley Wolfe was stranded at 24,000 ft. Three...
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TIL each of America's first four bankruptcy laws was passed in the wake of a financial panic, and two of them were repealed because creditors felt debtors were being allowed to discharge too many ...
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TIL of Thorkell the Tall, a Danish Viking who ravaged England in the 11th century. He only stopped when the English King Æthelred paid him 48,000 pounds of silver.
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TIL Wolf Vishniac endeavored to prove the presence of indigenous microbes in Antarctica using a microbiology instrument (the Wolf Trap) that he'd devised. He fell to his death from a cliff on Dec....
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TIL - that in Major League Baseball 33 players have hit home runs in their very first at bat and on the very first pitch - 8 of these were hit by pitchers.
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TIL that people who didn't recognize the candidates successfully predicted over 70% of U.S. Senate election winners just by looking at their photos and judging who looked more "competent," accordi...
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TIL that some plants can detect the vibrations made by caterpillars chewing on their leaves. 🌿
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TIL That plants, being descendants of ancestral algae that produced single celled offspring that split after shuffling their chromosomes, do not produce copies of themselves, but alternate generat...
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TIL that in 1896, the first recorded pedestrian killed by a motor car in Britain was hit at about 4 mph, which one witness described as "as fast as a good horse could gallop". The driver had only ...
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TIL about Elmer and Elsie, two robots built in 1948 by neurobiologist and cybernetician William Grey Walter. They had light-sensitive and touch-sensitive control mechanisms which allowed these "to...
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TIL that Winston Churchill had a grandson named Winston. The younger Winston visited China while in parliament, and was given the best room in the hotel because of his grandfather. Another MP ther...
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TIL that the space shuttle's toilet was so complicated that it required many hours of training. NASA built a simulator with a video camera in the defecation hole; those learning to use the toilet ...
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TIL that tiger sharks will time their migration to Laysan Island to prey on baby sea birds attempting to make their first flight.
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TIL that in 1980 28% of homicides were unsolved and that the rate has actually steadily increased and now on average around 39% of homicides are unsolved
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TIL Peter Siebold is the only person in history known to have survived an in-flight spacecraft breakup. After falling from around 50,000 feet, his parachute automatically deployed at 20,000 feet.
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TIL that the first successful infant heart xenotransplant procedure was done in 1984 by Dr Leonard Bailey using a baboon's heart. When asked why he had picked a baboon over a primate closely relat...
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TIL that according to scientists, the Snap as depicted in Avengers: Infinity War would cause the average person to lose between 1 pound (0.45 kg) and 3 pounds (1.4 kg) due to the loss of microbes ...
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TIL the highest-grossing theatrical movie re-release of all time is the 3D re-release of Titanic in 2012 at $350m worldwide, which is almost double what any other re-release in history was able to...
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TIL about the campaign of Authenticité in the DR Congo (prev. Zaïre) in the 60s and 70s where Mobutu Sese Seko attempted to remove everything considered reminders of colonial rule. Place names wer...
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TIL John Milton, author of Paradise Lost, wrote religious tracts arguing for no-fault divorce that became highly controversial; it was mostly inspired by his personal experiences with his wife, an...
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