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TIL about All Alone, a pigeon who was decorated for bravery during WWII. In 1943 a spy parachuted into France with All Alone, the agent learned important information about a Vichy paramilitary gro...
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TIL that Aptronym is when a name fits the profession like Usain Bolt being fastest man or Gabe Pressman being a journalist
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TIL that Claude Debussy was highly critical of his now-famous piano piece "Reverie", and didn't want to publish it. "In two words: it's bad"
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TIL Rizla rolling papers, still sold today, were first produced in 1660, and in 1796, Napoleon gave approval for Rizla papers to be distributed to his troops.
(rizla.co.uk)
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TIL Charles Manson was not initially arrested for the Tate-LaBianca murders, but because he and his followers burned down a piece of heavy construction equipment (a skip-loader) in Death Valley Na...
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TIL that Sir Terry Pratchett rewrote his first book, The Carpet People, after he became more well-known.
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TIL Apple has a patent for a pizza box
(www.theguardian.com)
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TIL the International Football Association Board, who set the laws of football used internationally, has just eight votes between all members: one each for the football associations of England, Sc...
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TIL: the metric unit for angle is the Gradian
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TIL that a Sherpa was presumed dead after being stranded at 7,500m on Everest. He survived six days without bottled oxygen or food, chewing ice and eating chocolate, then spent 2.5 days trapped in...
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TIL that most of the people working on the monster movie "The Giant Claw" had no idea what the titular monster would look like. When lead actor Jeff Morrow saw the film for the first time in his h...
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TIL that Leicester City's record goalscorer, Arthur Chandler (273 goals in 419 appearances), never scored a single penalty in his football career. He took just two, with both being saved.
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TIL There are a group of people in Southern Egypt / Northern Sudan who can trace their heritage to Hungarian soldiers who migrated there during the Ottoman Empire, while both territories were unde...
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TIL in 2006 Belgium's public broadcaster aired a fake breaking news report that Flanders had declared independence, Belgium had ceased to exist, and the royal family had fled by heli. The hoax was...
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TIL the Confederate submarine H.L. Hunley sank 3 times in 6 months. The third & final time it sank occurred when it attacked & sank the USS Housatonic, a US Navy warship. The submarine was...
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TIL that Dr. Robert Graves (the discoverer of Graves' disease) was once caught in a storm aboard a ship with failing bilge pumps. When the mutinous crew tried to abandon ship Graves holed the life...
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TIL for the first time, researchers observed mother leopard seals caring for their deceased offspring. This rare behavior is known as 'postmortem attentive behavior', or PAB. One mother seal atten...
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TIL popping candy is made by bubbling CO₂ through molten sugar at ~600 psi (≈41× atmospheric pressure), then cooling it under pressure. Tiny CO₂ bubbles remain trapped in the solid candy. In your ...
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TIL MLB Hall of Famer Wade Boggs once became tangled in barbed wire while deer hunting and cut his leg open from his knee to his ankle. Wrestling legend Mr. Perfect (Curt Hennig) carried Boggs nea...
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TIL it's possible to make chocolate analogues using seeds from fruit other than cocoa. Cupulate, for example, is made from the cupuaçu fruit.
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TIL that in the 1990s, the founder of Match.com asked his girlfriend to join the site to test it out—she promptly met someone else and left him.
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TIL that after a widow visited an underground station daily just to hear her late husband’s voice announce "Mind the Gap," the transport authority digitized his original recording so it would play...
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TIL modern smoking originated in the Americas. In Eurasia, cannabis was common before the arrival of tobacco but inhaled indirectly, not smoked. Evidence of direct smoking before the 16th century ...
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TIL that in Iceland the show Trapped (Ófærð) was so popular it achieved a 98 share in its home country. A 98 share equates to 98% of the televisions turned on were tuned to watching Trapped at the...
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TIL about Bekeranta, a 19th century community of indigenous Americans in British Guyana which was led by a man who claimed that he would turn them white by using a supernatural power. 400 people c...
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