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TIL that the virtual currencies of games like RuneScape are worth more than the currency of Venezuela

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TIL That Afghan minister of defense chose a woodland camo for Afghan soldiers because he "liked what he saw". Jeopardizing the lives of many Afghan troops because their wrongly camouflaged. Note: Afghan is only 2.1% forests.

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TIL actor Ashton Kutcher took part in the development of software used to identify child sex trade victims, with nearly 6,000 identified to date.

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TIL that if two identical metals touch in space, they instantly bond together and are permanently stuck. This phenomenon is called "cold welding."

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TIL that the most difficult and rare score to get in 10-pin bowling is not 300, but 292. This requires hitting the first 11 strikes, then rolling exactly 2 pins on your final roll, which is extremely difficult.

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TIL the Boeing factory in Seattle is so massive that rain clouds began to form inside the facility until a state-of-the-art air circulation system was installed

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TIL of Michael Orchard, a heroic man who broke into his neighbor's burning home to rescue their dog, and who later found out that the house fire was actually NOT real but was just a hallucination from the LSD he was consuming.

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TIL - Disney once sued three day care centers in Florida for unauthorized use of their characters (5 foot high likenesses on murals on the buildings) who had to remove them. Universal in turn let the centers use Scooby Doo, Flintstones & other of their Hanna-Barbera characters.

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TIL that repeated attempts to capitalize on the popularity of McDonald's Quarter Pounder by releasing competing 1/3 pound burgers have failed because Americans are bad at fractions.

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TIL Sioux City's airport code is SUX. When they tried to change it, the FAA offered them GAY as an alternative, which they declined.

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TIL After bombing Pearl Harbor, a Japanese Pilot crashed on the nearby Ni'ihau Island, part of Hawaii. The local Japanese American residents freed the captured pilot, stole ammunitions, and took hostages. This was cited as a reason why Japanese internment camps were needed during WWII.

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TIL Archaeologists are able to follow Lewis and Clarks trail across America by looking for their Mercury laden poop.

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TIL Singer Tina Turner relinqished her US citizenship in 2013 and is now a citizen of Switzerland where she has been living since 1994.

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TIL in January 2018, Belgium and the Netherlands swapped land to change their national borders. Belgium's foreign minister noted that "the agreement shows that borders can also be exchanged peacefully."

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TIL Korean college students once protested against the amount of air in potato chip packets by building a raft out of them and sailing across a river.

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TIL that every point in Colorado is higher than every point in Minnesota, and every point in Minnesota is higher than every point in Florida.

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TIL that Japan aims to power the Tokyo Olympics with 100% renewable energy. They plan to use wind & solar energy to power the stadiums & athletes village. They also want to recycle the small amounts of gold, silver & copper from around 80,000 old phones by using the metals to create 5,000 medals.

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TIL that despite 'The Boondock Saints' being considered one of the hottest scripts in Hollywood, it was only released in 5 theaters and for a duration of just one week. The main reason for the limited distribution was because of the recent massacre at Columbine High School.

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TIL that most Koreans do not use deodorant due to a gene called ABCC11, which prevents sweat from producing odor.

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TIL that the voice given for the A.I "Suit lady" aka "Karen" in Spider Man: Homecoming was none other than Jennifer Connelly who also happens to be the wife of Paul Bettany, the actor who voices J.A.R.V.I.S in the Iron Man films and later as Vision.

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TIL that after Prussia had it’s army limited to 42,000 men, the King of Prussia enrolled that number of permitted men for a year, then dismissed them and enrolled another group of the same size for the next year, and so on, eventually resulting in having an army of 420,000 trained men

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TIL that Jay Leno lives off all the money he made from standup. He put all his money from The Tonight Show into savings and charities

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TIL In 1983 a boy named Dave was doused in kerosine and set on fire by his father burning 90% of his body. Shortly after, Michael Jackson heard about the story, met, befriended and supported Dave throughout his whole life.

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TIL there is a Museum of Failure in Sweden, showcasing a collection of failed products and services from around the world.

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TIL that while Coca-Cola denies it designed "New Coke" to fail and create demand for "Coca Cola Classic" the period when "old" coke was off the market also helped mask the final transition from real sugar in the original recipe to High Fructose Corn Syrup in Coke Classic.

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TIL there is no national minimum drinking age in the United States. Instead, a law called National Minimum Drinking Age Act of 1984 punishes states that allow anyone under 21 to purchase alcohol by cutting their federal highway funds by 10%. The last state to comply was Louisiana in 1987.

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TIL in 2008, the Netherlands voted "Swaffelen" as their word of the year. It means to repeatedly smack one's (usually either flaccid or semi-erect) penis against someone or something.

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TIL students at Oberlin College can rent original paintings by Picasso, Monet, and Dalí (among others) to hang in their dorm rooms for $5 per semester

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TIL about "It's not the fart that kills you, it's the smell," a quote by Norwegian rally car driver Petter Solberg. In Norwegian, fart means speed and smell means impact. The expression has become a meme.

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TIL Human kidneys can only make urine that is less salty than salt water. Therefore, to get rid of all the excess salt taken in by drinking seawater, you have to urinate more water than you drank. Eventually, you die of dehydration even as you become thirstier.

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TIL there is a philosophical concept called the explanatory gap which is used to describe the inability to describe concepts. For instance, it is impossible to describe a color to a blind person and have them accurately understand and visualize that color.

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TIL that Jourdan Anderson escaped slavery and was begged by his former master to return because he was suffering, so Anderson replied with the finest fuck you lettet ever written by man, without ever saying fuck you.

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TIL Steven Spielberg refused a salary for "Schindlers List," calling it "Blood Money." The film went on to become one of the most successful of all time.

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TIL that in 1973, Marcus Foster, the first black Superintendent of the Oakland Unified School District, was murdered by the Symbionese Liberation Army, because they believed he supported the plan to create a student identification card system that would help keep non-student drug-dealers off campus.

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TIL that Helen Magill White was the first American woman to earn a PhD. Raised by a Quaker father who believed she have the same education as her brothers, Helen attended Boston University, where in 1877, she earned a doctorate in Greek. Her thesis “the Greek Drama” was discovered at Cornell in 2018

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TIL that in Germany, it is illegal to kill any animal that is a vertebrate "without proper reason" like the animal being ill or a danger to humans. Because of this, all German animal shelters are no-kill.

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TIL there is a 'Richter scale for human calamity' called the Foster scale. According to the Foster scale, WWII was the most disastrous event in human history with a score of 11.1, the Black Death ranks number 2 at 10.9, and WWI at number 3 with 10.5.

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TIL: The eruption of mount vesuvius, which decimated pompeii, occoured on 24 August AD 79, just one day after Vulcanalia, the festival of the Roman god of fire, including that from volcanoes.

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TIL that Tim Allen spent 28 months in federal prison for trafficking cocaine.

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TIL for his role in FernGully Robin Williams provided 14 hours worth of improvised lines for the part which was originally only supposed to be an 8-minute role

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TIL "Baseball is so popular in Japan that many new Japanese fans are surprised to learn that Americans also consider it their 'national sport'"

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TIL that the text in ReCAPTCHA security codes looks so strange because they're actually helping to digitize books and other text. The company has designed their system so that humans enter the words optical character recognition software can't recognize. Their old slogan was "Stop spam, read books."

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TIL of The Shaggs: three teenage sisters forced to play in a band by their father. Almost completely musically inept, their album failed to gain any traction until years after it was recorded, when Frank Zappa claimed it was one of his favorite albums of all time.

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TIL that an Alabama bloodhound joined a half marathon after her owner let her out to go pee. She ran the entire 13.1 miles and finished 7th.

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TIL Tom Hanks was paid a low $800 for the movie "He Knows You're Alone", $50,000 for "Toy Story" and a high of $70 million for "Forrest Gump".

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TIL That horses can only breathe through their nostrils, and their anatomy prevents them from being able to breathe with their mouths

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TIL about the PayPal Mafia. The original group of PayPal founders and employees who have gone on to become one of the most successful groups of individuals in the world. The portfolio of companies they've founded includes; Tesla, Youtube, Space X, Linkedin, Yelp, and Founders Fund, to name a few.

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TIL of David Goggins, the only member in the U.S. Armed Forces to complete SEAL training, Ranger School and Air Force Tactical Air Controller training. Goggins retired from active duty as a Chief Petty Officer in 2016. He's also an ultra-athlete and held the world record for most pull-ups in 24hrs.

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TIL that Pope John Paul II was shot and critically injured in an assassination attempt. The Pope survived and forgave the attacker, and even requested that the man be pardoned from life imprisonment. After the Pope died, his would-be assassin visited his tomb and laid flowers.

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TIL the Albatross is a large bird that can go years without landing. They spend their first 6 years of life flying over the ocean without ever touching the ground.

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