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TIL that all U.S. aircraft carriers are Nuclear Powered, meaning they can continuously sail for up to 25 years without needed to refuel.

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TIL The Hunchback of Notre-Dame was written by Victor Hugo as part of a campaign to preserve Gothic Architecture around Paris. Prior to the novel, the cathedral was in bad shape and at risk of eventual demolition. As a result of tourism from the book, Paris started restoration work instead.

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TIL that Game of Thrones actor Peter Dinklage and his wife, Erica Schmidt, have never revealed the name of their daughter, born in 2011. Dinklage and Schmidt had a second child in 2017. The couple never revealed the name or sex of this second child.

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TIL that in 1999 Brad Pitt rented out a Mexican resort and filled it with friends. He then had the power cut at midnight, the resort raided by the government, and one of his friends "arrested" on drug charges, all as an elaborate prank.

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TIL that a medically sound symptom for having a mismatched blood transfusion is an immediate sense of impending doom.

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TIL US Army dentist Ben L. Salomon was posthumously awarded the Medal of Honor for providing a rear-guard action during the Battle of Saipan. His body was found laying on his machine gun with 98 Japanese soldiers in front of him and 76 bullet wounds (and almost as many bayonet wounds) in him.

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TIL Quebec banned ads for toys and fast food aimed at children under 13, resulting in lowered childhood obesity rates.

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TIL That the founder of match.com Gary Kremen, lost his girlfriend to a man she met on match.com

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TIL of ‘Shturmovshchina’—a Russian term for working frantically to meet a deadline after having not done anything for a month.

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TIL that after Charlotte Corday was executed by guillotine, a man lifted her head and slapped it on the cheeks, an expression of unequivocal indignation then appeared on her face suggesting that victims of the guillotine may retain consciousness for a short while

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TIL in 2016, 104-year-old Jack Reynolds became the oldest person to get a tattoo, and a year later at 105-years-old, he became the oldest person to ride a rollercoaster.

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TIL Shaquille O'Neal allowed a pre-fame *NSYNC to record their demo in his recording studio after hearing them sing the national anthem at an Orlando Magic basketball game.

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TIL that Italian cyclist Alfredo Binda was so overwhelmingly dominating his sport, that he was payed by the organizers of the Giro d'Italia not to race. The sum he received was equivalent to that awarded to the winner.

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TIL Toyota used to be called Toyoda but in 1936 the company decided for a new name held a competition and got over 27000 entries. Toyota was chosen because the number of strokes to write Toyota in Japanese (eight) was thought to bring luck and prosperity

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TIL about the Grafton castaways, a real-life Gilligan's Island. Shipwrecked for 18 months in the Auckland islands in 1864, the 5 men lived in a thatched hut complete with glass windows and bookshelves. They built a forge to work metal, tanned leather, made soap from seashells, and even brewed beer.

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TIL Shaq (Shaquille O’Neal) is an electronic music DJ, and goes by the name 'DJ Deisel.' He put out an album in 1993, which went platinum. He did spend most of 1992-2011 on the basketball court, but Shaq also recorded four more studio albums and one compilation album.

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TIL About Buffalo City, NC. The once tight knit logging boomtown and “moonshine capital” was visited by FDR on a trip to Roanoke. Built in the middle of nowhere, they relied on alcohol-tourism during the 1920s & 30s, “mysteriously” turning ghost town after prohibition ended.

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TIL that there is a mushroom species that can break down plastic.

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TIL that NYE revelers in Times Square are often locked into place for up to twelve hours and cannot move, so many of them wear adult diapers and the kids just go on the street.

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TIL there is a PUBLIC High School in Brooklyn that produced 5 Nobel Prize WINNERS, 3 US Senators, 1 Supreme Court Judge and numerous other scientists, artists and entertainers.

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TIL about Bass Reeves. 1838 – 1910 The first black deputy Marshall west of the Mississippi River. He worked mostly in Arkansas and the Oklahoma territory. During his long career, he was credited with arresting more than 3,000 felons (including his own son). He shot and killed 14 outlaws.

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TIL of "Banner blindness". It is when you subconsciously ignore ads and anything that resembles ads.

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TIL Dick Van Dyke dropped out of high school during his senior year in 1944 to join the military. He went on to earn his diploma in 2004 at the age of 78.

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TIL that legendary mountain man Jim Bridger loved telling tall tales, his favorite being the story about his pursuit by 100 Cheyenne warriors ending in him being closed in at the end of a canyon. At this point he would stop, and when inevitably asked what happened next, would reply "they killed me."

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TIL Greek Folklore says kids born between Christmas and Epiphany (January 6) are considered doomed to become kallikantzaros, a kind of half-human, half-demon vampire - with talons that lives in the underworld and comes back to Earth to tear its family members to pieces during the Christmas holidays.

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TIL that Scientists Hope to Clone a 40,000-Year-Old Extinct Horse. The baby horse was discovered in permafrost in eastern Siberia. The animal's tissue was preserved enough for scientists to obtain samples. There is no damage to the horse's carcass and even its hair is intact.

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TIL that Lucy's Law bans pet shops and dealers in England from selling puppies and kittens. It was named after Lucy, a Cavalier King Charles Spaniel who developed fused hips, a curved spine, bald patches and epilepsy after years of mistreatment in the puppy farming system.

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TIL One of the richest woman in China was born in extreme poverty in a remote mountain village. She got her wealth by selling her chili sauce, lao gan ma, which she originally made for her noodle stand.

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TIL that one of Russia's deadliest contract killers, Alexander Solonik, was credited with 43 kills. He was killed in 1997 by another contract killer sent by the mob he was working for.

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[TIL]After a New York lawyer insulted restaurant staff for speaking Spanish in public, people wrote over +2000 1 Star reviews for his office.

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TIL That as McDonald's came to the former Communist nations of Eastern Europe, it became a point of national pride to have one, even being included in football chants to taunt those countries who didn't yet have a McDonalds.

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TIL that it takes four or five generations of monarch butterflies to complete the annual migration from Mexico to northern USA/Canada in the spring but in the fall a single "super generation" completes the entire 3,000 mile journey.

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TIL in 1913, a bank was shipped in 50 pound increments through the USPS mail system to save money. 40 tons of bricks ended up being shipped and the USPS released a statement saying “it is not the intent of the United States Postal Service that buildings be shipped through the mail."

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TIL King Edward I of England built the largest trebuchet ever made called "the Warwolf". The Scots inside the castle surrendered by the mere sight of it but Edward used it anyways because it was so awesome and wanted to see it in action.

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TIL that Mister Rogers, in 1968, hired the first black actor to have a recurring role on a children’s show --François Clemmons. Clemmons portrayed a police officer on Mister Rogers neighborhood.

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TIL: in 2017, a frat party in a Maryland house tested positive on a breathalyzer because there was so much alcohol in the air.

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TIL in 1992, a retiree was out searching for a lost hammer with a metal detector. During his search he found a huge cache of Roman treasure, including 15,234 coins. The British government gave him and the owner of the land £1.75 million for finding it. Later on, he also found the hammer

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TIL a study was conducted involving separating infant twins through an adoption agency to study nature vs nurture . The twins involved in the experiment were never given knowledge of the study and the findings never published. The records are contained at Yale and will not be released until 2066.

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TIL Paranormal Activity is the most profitable film ever made, as it only had a budget of $15,000 and still made over $190 million in the box office

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TIL when Halle Berry won 'Worst Actress' for Catwoman (2004) at the Razzie Awards, she accepted the award in person, holding her Oscar for Monster's Ball (2001) in one hand and the Razzie in the other. She thanked Warner Bros. during her speech for putting her in "a piece of shit, god-awful movie."

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TIL that in 2007 a Swiss infantry unit got lost and inadvertently crossed 1.5 km into Liechtenstein. The accidental invasion ended when the unit realized their mistake and turned back. When the Swiss army apologized, Liechtenstein's reply was, ‘No problem, these things happen.’

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TIL A dagger discovered in King Tutankhamen’s tomb, in 1925, was made of meteoric metal. It wasn’t until recently that scientists were able to confirm, using portable X-ray fluorescence spectrometry, that it was composed of iron, nickel, and cobalt, “strongly suggests an extraterrestrial origin.”

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TIL When Robin Williams appeared on 'Inside the Actors Studio' in 2001, an audience member developed a hernia from laughing too hard, and had to be taken away in an ambulance

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TIL that the term "Down Syndrome" was adopted globally at the behest of Mongolia to replace the offensive term 'Mongoloid'

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TIL that Mister Rogers, in 1968 --the same year as the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr, hired the first black actor to have a recurring role on a children’s show --François Clemmons. Clemmons portrayed a police officer on Mister Rogers neighborhood.

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TIL that William Burke, who killed with his partner 16 persons and sold their bodies for use as specimens in anatomy classes of Edinburgh Medical School, was hanged and his corpse was publicly dissected and preserved in the anatomical museum of the same school.

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TIL Mick "Crocodile" Dundee was based on an actual person named Rod Answell who survived 56 days in crocodile infested outback. He died in a police shootout after he killed a cop while high on amphetamines

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TIL the actor originally cast as Charlie in Charlie's Angels was drunk and couldn't record his lines. The show's creator called John Forsythe last minute, he recorded the lines for the first episode in the middle of the night, then went back to bed. He kept that role for 5 years.

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TIL Of the Nazi drug D-IX that allowed test subjects to march 56 miles per day while carrying a 44 lb. backpack

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TIL that if a tail shed by a lizard as a decoy was not eaten by the chasing predator (and the lizard gets away too) the lizard would return to eat its own tail. Turns out the shed tail is a great source of fat to regain the energy lost in its getaway.

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