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TIL female Hyenas have pseudo penises that they give birth through often killing first time mothers and suffocating newborns
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TIL that, in the early 1980s, a doctor advised Lemmy Kilmister against receiving a complete transfusion of "clean" blood because his body had grown so accustomed to the chemicals in his blood that...
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Today I Learned of Father Gabriele Amorth who laimed to have performed "at least 60,000 exorcisms" and became one of the most prominent and controversial figures in the Catholic Church in the mode...
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TIL that the Polish government has made it illegal to dive within a 500 metre radius of the MV Wilhelm Gustloff wreckage without permission from the Maritime Office
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TIL: Every time a Habsburg monarch would move into a palace they would redecorate and put the old furnishings in storage, so now the Austrian state owns 160,000 pieces of furniture
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TIL Illinois now has a 12 year winning streak against Iowa in the annual tug of war across the Mississippi River. Port Byron, IL and Le Claire, IA have competed since 1987, with Port Byron suppose...
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TIL that Stanley Kubrick fired Hans Zimmer from Full Metal Jacket (1987)
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TIL the WB Frog cartoon was inspired by a frog that survived 31 years entombed in a time capsule.
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TIL Kelvin's Balls are the two soft iron balls attached to either side of a ship's magnetic compass binnacle. Invented by Lord Kelvin (of °K temperature fame), they are adjustable to counteract th...
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TIL in 1988, a Delta 1141 crew joked if they crashed, their chat about drink mixes and flight attendant dating habits was going to make news headlines. They crashed shortly after. Pilots unions th...
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TIL David Vetter, the “Bubble Boy”, had a profound friendship with one of his doctors, Mary Murphy, and asked her to write his story; this story was suppressed by Vetter’s family for decades as it...
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TIL- Rectal Administration of Coca-Cola is often used as a last resort before surgery to cure Colonic Fecaloma(Basically extreme constipation where a rock hard mass of stool completely gets stuck ...
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TIL that Abner Doubleday, the man who is widely and incorrectly thought to be the inventor of baseball, fired the first Union shot of the American civil war
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TIL aspirin has a half-life of only ~20 minutes, but permanently disables a key enzyme in platelets, so its effect usually persists for the platelet’s entire lifespan (~10 days)
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TIL- Whiskey is a legitimate cure for Antifreeze (or Ethylene Glycol) poisoning.
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TIL The last time a european monarch vetoed the election of a Pope was in 1903 when Franz Joseph of Austria vetoed the election of Cardinal Rampolla, who had enough votes to win. Giuseppe Sarto wa...
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TIL Rhode Island’s official name was “The State of Rhode Island and the Providence Plantations,” until 2020
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TIL a Polish cow crashed through a metal fence, broke a worker's arm, and swam to a nearby island to escape being brought to the slaughterhouse. The farm owner eventually gave up on trying to reca...
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TIL Elderberries are a naturally occurring pH indicator--turning blue in a basic solution and red/orange in an acidic one.
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TIL the Congo Free State wasn’t a colony of Belgium; it was private property of King Leopold II. Leopold was able to seize the region by convincing other European states that he was involved in hu...
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TIL in Australia, Cocos (Keeling) Islands has a Muslim majority. The culture of the islands is similar to Malaysia and Indonesia due to the population being mostly ethnic Malay and they speak a va...
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TIL - Chickens and opossums don't actually help control tick populations, and opossums don't appear to eat ticks at all.
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TIL the church that Peter Stuyvesant (who surrendered New Amsterdam to the English) was baptised in is now a vacation rental
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TIL about the 1974 Ozark Music Festival in which at least 160,000 people shared 5 portable toilets, 230 people were transported to hospital owing to drugs and excessive heat, and lime had to be sp...
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TiL during a Prisoner's Dilemma study, when men were shown people receiving an electric shock they felt enjoyment when it was a cheater being punished and empathy when it was an innocent. Women fe...
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