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TIL the title "Admiral of the Great Navy of Nebraska" is an honour granted by the US state of Nebraska. Nebraska has no navy, and is also the furthest state from the ocean, being triple-landlocked...
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TIL that around 1,000 copies of Toy Story 2’s 2000 “Ultimate Toy Box” DVD release accidentally contained a scene from the R-rated movie High Fidelity, including multiple uses of “fuck”. The manufa...
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TIL: Both mothers and fathers show preferential treatment towards daughters over sons, according to a 2025 meta-analysis by the American Psychological Association across 30 studies and 14 databases
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TIL 'Bad' was supposed to be a duet between Michael Jackson and Prince but the latter objected to the lyrics
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TIL Pee Wee Herman became famous as a regular guest on Late Night With David Letterman and his comedy was aimed at adult instead of kids. The character was in a few Cheech and Chong Movies and per...
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TIL Medieval chronicler Giovanni Villani, famous for pioneering the inclusion of data in his history writing, was able to calculate the population of his native Florence in 1338 based on each hous...
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TIL Rosemary Harris / Aunt May in the 2000s Spiderman movies is now 98 years old and has acted for 76 years
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TIL West Virginia uses the unique legal terms “life with mercy” and “life without mercy” to refer to “life with parole” and “life without parole” sentences, respectively.
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TIL that Sherpa is the name of an ethnic group in Nepal, not a term for a mountain guide. The word is often used to refer to Himalayan guides because many Sherpas have historically worked in mount...
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TIL the existence of hydrothermal vents and the shipwreck of the Titanic was discovered by the same person, Robert Ballard.
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TIL that during the Battle of Mohi in 1241,Mongol general Subutai coordinated separate Mongol armies across vast distances,reportedly reaching up to 500 km(300 miles) apart.With no radios or rapid...
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TIL that in the late 19th century the refined-sugar industry ran a smear campaign against brown sugar, circulating microscope photographs of harmless but repulsive-looking microbes living in it. B...
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TIL the Ocean Sunfish holds the record for animal growth factor, gaining mass by 60,000,000x from less than a milligram egg to 1000-2000kg adult.
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TIL RJR, the tobacco company that produces Camel, developed a mokeless cigarette in the 80s. It flopped due to poor reception, costing the company up to $1 billion. Researchers were explicitly tol...
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TIL Pilot Bill Weaver survived an SR-71 breaking apart at Mach 3 at 78,000 feet and resumed flying it two weeks later
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TIL a 1954 Canadian banknote's engraved portrait of Queen Elizabeth II accidentally contained what looked like a demonic face hidden in her hair — and the Bank of Canada quietly fixed it without e...
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TIL the Irish Government only registered the left facing harp, not all harps so it wouldn't interfere with the Guinness logo
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TIL Republican Rome disdained wearing pants as the mark of barbarians, viewing Greek draped clothing as the emblem of civilization. As their empire expanded beyond the Mediterranean, the warmth pr...
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TIL In 1988, Hallmark Cards began selling "Transylvania University" t-shirts purporting to be from Dracula's alma mater. They were unaware that Transylvania University is a real school in Kentucky...
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TIL about The Campaign for North Africa, considered (one of) the most complex board game ever made. A game takes up to 1500 hours to complete
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TIL that Swedish biologist Carl Linnaeus has been appointed as the type specimen for Homo Sapiens. In simple terms, when scientists ask "is this a human?", they are asking "is this specimen the sa...
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TIL that the highest-ever United Kingdom temperatures for December and January were recorded in the far north of Scotland.
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TIL about the Mountaineers' Cemetery of Zermatt. Filled almost exclusively with those who died on the local peaks. The sole exception to this is one stone marking the grave of two men, Peter Taugw...
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TIL that the play “The Madness of George III” was adapted into a movie with the title renamed as “The Madness of King George” or people would've skipped it because they hadn't watched parts I and II.
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TIL in 1979 Clairol released a shampoo called "Touch of Yogurt", which quickly became one of the highest profile product flops of all time. Many consumers were apparently confused as to what they ...
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