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TIL - Australian Convicts stole a British ship and sailed it to Japan in 1830
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TIL during the shooting of American Psycho, Christian Bale spoke in an American accent off-set at all times. At the wrap party, when he spoke in his native British accent, many of the crew thought...
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TIL after World War II, a Japanese-Brazilian organization, Shindo Renmei refused to believe news of Japan's surrender, thinking it was American disinformation. They spread underground newspapers &...
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TIL that the first American in space peed in his spacesuit without any diaper or catheter. Also, astronauts these days no longer have to use a catheter when wearing a spacesuit.
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TIL a fur trapper accidentally shot in 1822 survived with a permanent hole in his stomach that never healed. An army surgeon spent over a decade literally dangling pieces of food through the hole ...
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TIL 70% of the legitimate pregnancies attributed to Henry VIII & his 6 wives resulted in miscarriage or stillbirth. By comparison, only 10% of the recorded pregnancies involving 31 noblemen cl...
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TIL there have been 140 paying space tourists since American entrepreneur Dennis Tito took the first tourist flight to the International Space Station in 2001.
(theconversation.com)
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TIL that in 1223, Jebe and Subutai made the Rus' army believe the Mongols were fleeing in defeat. They let them chase for days, then suddenly turned around at the Kalka River and annihilated the e...
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TIL Mustafa Ağa Azizoğlu, an Οttoman official during the Αrmenian Genocide, tried to stop deportations and massacres of Αrmenians. After being unable to do so, he hid and protected Αrmenian famili...
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TIL a Japanese high school student was the only regular passenger at a rural train station in Hokkaido. She used the station every day to get to school, and the station closed in March 2016 around...
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TIL Rob Zombie worked as a production assistant for the children's show Pee-wee's Playhouse.
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TIL that the longest sustained observation of a total solar eclipse is 74 minutes, achieved in a modified Concorde flying at Mach 2 in 1973.
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TIL that in 1994, Jimmy Page and Robert Plant successfully sued HBO to have a song that sampled Kashmir removed from TV showings of the movie Bad Lieutenant and the film's distributor was ordered ...
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TIL that Rwanda has a monthly mandatory day of community service called Umuganda. All able-bodied citizens aged 18-65 come together to clean streets, plant trees, clear ditches, and build infrastr...
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TIL that Revolutionary War hero Baron von Steuben was forced to leave Europe after facing allegations of sodomy. Benjamin Franklin helped recruit him anyway to train the Continental Army, and afte...
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TIL Soviet scientists in the 1960s claimed to discover a new form of water that boiled higher and froze lower than normal. It sparked Cold War fears of a "polywater gap" with the USSR, triggered a...
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TIL Willis Carrier worked at a lithograph company in Brooklyn when he noticed the summer humidity levels kept shrinking and expanding the paper, resulting in poor quality images. His solution led ...
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TIL Colin Scott tripped and fell into an acidic pool at Yellowstone National Park. The next day, rescuers attempted to retrieve his body, but it had dissolved overnight, leaving behind only a wall...
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TIL about Jèrriais, the traditional language of the Channel Island, Jersey. During the German occupation of the Channel Islands during WWII; the local population used it among themselves as a lang...
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TIL that in 2009 a dead fish was placed in an fMRI machine and showed photographs of humans in social interactions. Signal changes in the brain of the dead fish were detected. The researchers cond...
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TIL Isabella of France, Queen of England overthrew her husband Edward II after a famously bad marriage. This was mostly due to his close male companions he favored over her.
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TIL of Dalí Atomicus, a 1948 photo of Salvador Dalí in which 3 cats and a bucket of water were thrown across the scene. This took at least 26 attempts to make.
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TIL The instrumental for Rihanna's “Diamonds” was originally offered to Eminem, who recorded a song using the same instrumental but never released it.
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TIL In 1998 a freak lightning strike in the DRC killed an entire football team yet left their opponents completely unscathed. The incident then sparked accusations of witchcraft around the region....
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TIL about Alexithymia, a condition characterized by an impaired ability to be aware of, explicitly identify, and describe one’s feelings.
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