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TIL of the Tongan Castaways, six boys who stole a boat and were stranded on a deserted island in 1965, staying there for 15 months before rescue. Called a real-life Lord of the Flies, the boys built a "commune" with a garden, permanent fire, gym, and badminton court.

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TIL that Malcolm X was an inspiration for the X-Men character Magneto, while Martin Luther King was an inspiration for Professor X.

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TIL that birch trees have bark that peels because they can photosynthesize through their bark. Peeling off the old bark removes lichen and fungus that would prevent photosynthesis.

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TIL after writers described the character as "Tom Petty without the success," Mike Judge ventured to actually ask Tom Petty to voice Lucky in King of the Hill. Petty said yes and voiced the character for 28 episodes.

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TIL about the Toronto Circus Riot of 1855 - A clown's hat was knocked off in a brothel by a firefighter leading to a brawl between clowns and firefighters. The firefighters left and stormed the circus the next day with pikes and axes, setting fire to the wagons, tents and Big Top, brawling again.

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TIL Warren Buffet, the world's third richest man with a net worth of 75 billion took Bill Gates to Mcdonalds and paid for his meal using coupons.

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TIL Joseph Strauss, the engineer of the golden Gate Bridge, mandated that a net be installed under the bridge for safety while being built. This was revolutionary at the time. The net caught 19 men who fell, saving all of them from a certain death.

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TIL about Peter Reyn-Bardt, who in 1983 confessed to the murder and dismemberment of his wife after a corpse was discovered in the town peat bog. The body was then dated to 1740 AD and Reyn-Bardt tried to retract his confession, but was still convicted.

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TIL in the 5th century BC, diabetes was first identified by a surgeon named Sushruta who pointed out that the urine of diabetics was sweet enough to attract ants and sticky to the touch. He noted that diabetes affected rich castes and was related to the excessive consumption of rice and sweets

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TIL: Su filindeu whose name means “the threads of God” is the rarest pasta in the world. Only the women of one Sardinian family, the Abraini family, knew how to make it for 300 years. A team of engineers from Barilla pasta tried to replicate Paola Abraini's process but failed.

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TIL The CIA used music as part of its interrogation program. Music would be played in a loop for hours on end to wear prisoners down, or to induce sleep deprivation. The one song that was near the very top of the torture list was the Meow Mix jingle.

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TIL that the weightless scenes in the movie Apollo 13 were real. The space capsule set was built inside a cargo plane that would freefall for about 20 seconds at a time, simulating being in orbit. The plane would then climb back up to film the next scene.

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TIL that every year Romans would crucify dogs while geese sat upon purple and gold pillows and watched. This was because when the Gauls attacked Rome in 390 BCE the geese raised an alarm while the guard dogs were silent.

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TIL there's a miniature art "museum" on the moon that includes a drawing of a dick by Andy Warhol

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TIL that Leonardo da Vinci received complaints about his procrastinating from one of the priors while painting The Last Supper. He solved the argument by threatening to use that particular prior as the model for Judas in the fresco. The complaints stopped shortly after he made this remark.

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TIL Porphyria, a medical condition that causes severe pain and burning to the skin upon exposure to sunlight, is a likely explanation to werewolf and vampire legends.

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TIL that Cambodia under the leadership of the communist Khmer Rouge committed a genocide which killed a quarter of Cambodia's 1975 population (c. 7.8 million). Those targeted were Buddhists, Christians, Muslims, and people with glasses.

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TIL the famous image of musician Johnny Cash flipping the bird came about as a result of his frustration that a TV crew from the UK filming his performance in San Quentin prison were between him and the audience and wouldn't “clear the stage” upon him asking them to do so...

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TIL Homer Simpson's infamous "d'oh!" was originally scripted simply as "annoyed grunt". Voice actor Dan Castellaneta took inspiration from comedic actor James Finlayson, who used a longer "d'ohhhh" in old Laurel and Hardy films because "damn" was too offensive at the time.

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TIL while the Venus Flytrap is available all over the world through cultivation, it only grows naturally in a small area of the coastal plain in North and South Carolina.

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TIL That Jack in The Box created a fake boy band called the Meaty Cheese Boys because NSYNC had a CD promo with McDonald’s and Back Street Boys had it with Burger King.

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TIL that Singapore had about 1 murder PER YEAR for the past 20 years. Not per 100K people - but for the entire population of almost 6,000,000.

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TIL the animal characters in the Jungle Book were named with the Hindi name for what animal they are. And that loosely translated Shere Khan means Tiger King

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TIL that juveniles of the endangered Regent Honeyeater are struggling to learn their species' mating call due to there being so few adults. 12% of males were found to be copying other species' songs instead, further contributing to their decline.

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TIL that to prepare for her role as Annie in Speed, Sandra Bullock actually learned how to drive a bus. She passed the test and got her license on her first try.

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TIL that baby owls sleep down on their stomach because their heads are too heavy. They do that until they are large enough to sleep upright.

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TIL of Hugh Clowers Thompson Jr. - a United States Army Major, and a former warrant officer in the 123rd Aviation Battalion of the 23rd Infantry Division, who's been credited with ending one of the United States' greatest war crimes- the Mỹ Lai Massacre, in Sơn Mỹ, Vietnam

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TIL: Leonardo DiCaprio was originally supposed to play Anakin Skywalker in the Star Wars prequels. He backed out at the end of the process because he "didn't feel ready to take that dive, at that point."

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TIL Alaric, famous for sacking Rome in 410, was able to do so because he enjoyed the poetry of Claudian. Claudian had described a route through the alps into Italy in his poems, which Alaric found and was thus able to use and evade direct contact with the Roman army for 6-9 months.

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TIL 193km of the Suez Canal was dug partly by hand starting in 1859. Over the span of 10 years, around 1 million took part in the digging and it cost the lives of over 100 thousand Egyptian forced laborers.

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TIL that in 1837 a British man sued a woman who bit his nose when he tried to kiss her. The court ruled "When a man kisses a woman against her will, she is fully entitled to bite his nose off, if she so pleases."

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TIL that in the UK, archaic "receiver of wreck" legislation means that if someone finds treasure underwater, they can get cash rewards - or even keep the treasure - after reporting it to the receiver.

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TIL children who were victims of bullying are consistently found to be at higher risk of being diagnosed with anxiety and depression in adulthood. They never truly get over it.

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TIL Two years before James Brady was seriously wounded during the attempted assassination of Ronald Reagan, he served as a press secretary to John Connally, who was seriously wounded during the assassination of John F. Kennedy.

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TIL a significant portion of the computer science community once believed Douglas Engelbart was "a crackpot." But, then, on 12/9/1968, he demonstrated to critics and world most all the fundamental elements of modern computing. When finished, they described him as "dealing lightning with both hands."

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TIL almond milk is 98.12% water and a serving only has 5 almonds in it.

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TIL Austria's only nuclear power plant in Zwentendorf was completed in the late 70s and was ready to be switched on, but in a referendum in 1978 the Austrian people rejected nuclear power by a slim majority of 50.47% against. As a result the power plant was never started up.

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TIL that Australia has its own version of Yeti/Bigfoot called Yowie. This mythical creature appears in many other name in Aboriginal folklore with earliest report of sighting in 1795.

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TIL since 8-track tapes have a loop-play function, where after the end the tape is played from the beginning once again, the 8-track version of the Pink Floyd album "Animals" was changed for playing on repeat - a guitar solo connecting the first and the last song on the album was added.

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TIL John Hinckley Jr's motive for attempting to assassinate Ronald Reagan was to try and woo Jodie Foster, emulating Robert De Niro's character from the film Taxi Driver

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TIL about the Mirai botnet, a network of malware-infected devices that was used to shut down the internet for most of the US East Coast in 2016 and sparked fears of an attack from a hostile state. The botnet's creator? A group of college students trying to get more players on their Minecraft server.

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TIL: Sega Master System and Sega Genesis controllers are backwards-compatible and can be used with the Atari 2600

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TIL Jakarta is sinking 25cm per year, in part due to excessive use of groundwater and lack of piped water. It is expected that the city will be completely submerged in the next 30 years.

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TIL that Jerry Parr, a secret agent, who saved Ronald Reagan exactly 40 years ago on March 30, 1981 from an attempted assassination by John Hinckley, decided to join the secret service after watching a movie, called "Code of the Secret Service", starring... Ronald Reagan.

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TIL Two beer drinkers in California sued the Kona Brewing Co. in 2017 for deceptive marketing and branding, believing their products to be made exclusively in Hawaii. Kona does in fact make beer in 5 different states, including Hawaii, and labels their products accordingly.

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Today I learned about Polish Haitians who date back to 1802 when they fought along side Haitian slaves during the Haitian Revolution which helped establish the world's first free black Republic. The Poles acquired Haitian citizenship for their support in overthrowing the French colonialists.

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TIL in Cuba, picking up hitchhikers is mandatory for government vehicles, if passenger space is available.

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TIL an epidemic in 1872 affecting horses was a key moment in the animal rights movement as the founder of the ASPCA would stand in the street to block horse-drawn trolleys to insist that sick horses be returned to the stables instead of being worked to death

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TIL that Edwin Booth, the brother of John Wilkes Booth, Abraham Lincoln's killer, saved the life of Lincoln's son Robert by hanging onto him at a train station.

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TIL Actress Cloris Leachman was awarded 8 Primetime Emmy Awards from 22 nominations, making her the most nominated and, along with Julia Louis-Dreyfus, most awarded actress in Emmy history. She won an Academy Award, a British Academy Film Award, a Golden Globe Award, and a Daytime Emmy Award.

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