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TIL that Hitler was frustrated that Himmler was performing archeological studies in Germany, as he was worried that they would show the world that “Aryans” lived in mud huts while other civilizations were more technologically advanced

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TIL that 95 year old Dick Van Dyke uses LightWave 3D and has been doing computer animation since owning a Commodore Amiga in 1991.

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TIL that Kurt Cobain's guttural and slurred voice contributed to the early resistance from radio stations towards adding Nirvana's most famous song: "Smell like teen spirit" to their playlists as it was hard to understand what Cobain was singing.

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TIL In order to gather private data for use in an investigation, officers usually need a warrant. To bypass these rules, The Secret Service bought the location data they needed from a private company. Private companies are allowed to collect data from individuals and sell it to anybody they want

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TIL the animatronic gopher in the 1980 film Caddyshack cost around $500,000 and was built and filmed after the movie had been completed. The first cut was a cocaine fueled mess and it was suggested in post-production that the gopher should be part of an expanded storyline to tie everything together.

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TIL the push bar on commercial doors is called a "crash bar" and was invented to prevent crowd crushes after 183 children died in a theater stampede due to a locked door

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TIL it's illegal to let your donkey sleep in your bathtub in Arizona. In 1924, a merchant near the town of Kingman let his donkey sleep in an old bathtub when a local dam broke. The donkey was swept away in the tub and the locals spent a lot of manpower rescuing the animal. The donkey survived.

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TIL when the UN's Nordic Battalion was sent to Bosnia in 1993 it disobeyed orders, broke rules of engagement, faked loss of communication to HQ, and became known as one the most trigger-happy peacekeeper units. This enabled them to achieve their mission objective: to protect civilians at all cost.

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TIL about the hunter-gatherer practice of "Insulting the Meat." To keep the best hunters from thinking themselves above the rest of the tribe, Ju/’hoan people insult the quality of the meat and lightheartedly mock the hunter who brought the animal down. The bigger the kill, the greater the insults.

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TIL Before elevators, the 2nd floor of buildings were the most sought after because you didn't have to walk up a lot of stairs and you were above the street level, avoiding all the noises and smells. It's why a lot of older buildings have larger/nicer rooms on the second floor.

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TIL: Claiming his first belt at 20 years, four months, and 22 days old, Mike Tyson holds the record as the youngest boxer ever to win a heavyweight title.

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TIL in 2010 a Woman Was Evicted From Her £3,000,000 Castle in Scotland After Refusing to Pay a £230 Bill For a Bridal-wear Rental.

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TIL Splooting is a pose squirrels do in order to cool down by pressing their tummy onto a cool surface

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TIL 76% of Vietnamese people share only 6 surnames, with a full 38% of them having the surname Nguyen

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TIL that in 1987, Guns n Rose’s Axl Rose slept with drummer Steve Adler’s girlfriend, recorded it, and added it into their hit song, Rocket Queen

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TIL Phoenix, AZ used to be full of canals built by indigenous peoples

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TIL in 1947 a woman with hives went to Johns Hopkins to cure her hives. She received an experimental drug Compund 1694 and not only her hives cleared up she reported that her trolly rides were free from nausea. Doctors immediately test the drug for motion sickness and Compund 1694 became Dramamine.

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TIL that a capitonym is a word that changes meaning when capitalized. For instance, "China" refers to the country, while "china" refers to ceramic dinnerware.

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TIL of Carl McCunn an American wildlife photographer who became stranded in the Alaskan wilderness. He hired a bush pilot to drop him off but never confirmed his pickup. He even gave a plane that spotted him an 'all is well' sign by mistake. He took his own life when he ran out of supplies

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TIL that although the U.S. legally separated from Britain on July 2, 1776, Congress finally approved of the Declaration of Independence 2 days later after vigorous denunciation of the slave trade was removed.

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TIL that home teams in basketball wear white uniforms because the home team had access to laundry facilities. By wearing grey or another dark color the visiting team was better able to conceal the stains that had accumulated on their uniforms over the course of the series.

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TIL that Soviet snipers Mariya Polivanova and Natalya Kovshova, when low on ammunition and surrounded by German soldiers, the two kissed and detonated the last of their grenades, killing themselves and many nearby German soldiers.

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TIL St. Nicholas (aka Santa Claus) is the patron saint of prostitutes

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TIL about the Rabbit Test: a pregnancy test used as late as the 1950’s where blood was extracted from a woman and injected into a female rabbit. The rabbit would then be killed and examines for enlarged ovaries. If found, it would signify the woman is pregnant

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TIL Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. never completed high school. He was such a child prodigy that he skipped grades and enrolled in college at the age of 15. He later received his Bachelor of Arts in Sociology, Bachelor of Divinity and his PhD in theology.

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TIL That only 4 people in the history of Golf have scored a "Condor", which is a 4-under Par on a single hole.

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TIL on June 29, 1971 cosmonauts Georgi Dobrovolsky, Vladislav Volkov, and Viktor Patsayev died in space, the first humans to do so, as the Soyuz 11 crew capsule depressurized. They had been the first crew to board Salyut 1, the first space station in orbit, spending 23 days conducting experiments.

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TIL In 1816, the United States designed a fort to shield itself from a Canadian invasion. However, due to an earlier surveying error it was later found that this first fort was inadvertently built on the Canadian side of the border, resulting in its sometimes being better known as "Fort Blunder".

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TIL of "Janet" Airlines, a secret, full-service airline that carries military and contractor employees to sites such as Area 51.

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TIL of Vincent Chin, a Chinese-American man who was murdered in 1982 by two laid-off auto workers. Blaming the increasing popularity of Japanese cars in America for their redundancy, and the US' auto industry struggles, the men assumed Chin was Japanese, and beat him to death in a nightclub.

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TIL Kris Kristofferson went into music after studying at Oxford as a Rhodes scholar. He moved to Nashville and made ends meet as a helicopter pilot. After trying unsuccessfully to get Johnny Cash to hear some of his songs, he finally got Cash's attention by landing a helicopter on his lawn.

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TIL Film director Richard Stanley once escaped from war-torn Afghanistan with his wounded cameraman after despite being on LSD that he took earlier. He said the LSD saved his life as he could see in the dark and believed he could smell the landmines.

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TIL Emilia Plater who at 17 led Polish-Lithuanian forces against Imperial Russia. She led a unit of 280 infantry, 60 cavalry & several hundred peasants. She was awarded the rank of captain & is referred to as the Lithuanian 'Joan of Arc'.

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TIL Goldstone Books in South Wales once received so many used copies of 50 Shades of Grey that they had to ask people to stop handing them in. Employees even created a fort out of their hundreds of surplus copies.

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TIL about Herostratus: A person who burned the Temple of Artemis, which was one of the seven wonders of the ancient world, because he wanted to be famous. “Herostratic fame” was coined after him where a person earns fame through misdeeds.

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TIL Back in 1991, five years after the Chernobyl disaster, scientists discovered a fungal resident of the radioactive complex actually feasts on deadly radiation. Scientists believe the Cryptococcus neoformans fungus could allow humans to insulate against deadly rays

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TIL in 2018 BBC4 Gave an App to 18,000 people in the UK to simulate how a pandemic flu would spread. The results were scary accurate, and promptly ignored.

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TIL that in 2013 a Brazilian ref and player got into a fight over a red card. The ref drew a knife and fatally stabbed the player, and in response, the crowd beheaded the ref and mounted his head on a pike in the field.

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TIL In 1951, Mel Blanc (the voice of most Looney Tunes) accomplished what was then considered to be impossible, when he voiced both Bugs Bunny and Daffy Duck, doing impersonations of each other. According to voice actors, the impressions should have muddled, or the voices straddled one another.

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TIL It is quite common for older homes to have piles of razor blades in their walls.

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TIL David Gilmour's 2016 performance at the Pompeii amphitheater was the first live performance with an audience since 79 A.D.

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TIL that Genghis Khan, who established the world's largest contiguous empire between the 13th and 14th centuries, has been branded the 'greenest invader' in history as his murderous invasion actually helped scrub about 700million tonnes of carbon from the atmosphere.

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TIL : about Maria Yzabell Angel Palma of The Philippines. In 2016 at 19 yo (grade 10), she developed AirDisc, a COOLing system with no freon gas and consumes ~75% less against the current cooling technology. And she discover this while making an eco friendly OVEN.

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TIL Kim Kardashian sued Old Navy claiming the use of Canadian actress Melissa Molinaro violated her publicity rights by using a lookalike in an ad. Old Navy countered that the actress was famous in her own right and the case was settled out of court.

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TIL American stop signs used to be yellow. This was because red dye on signs would fade over time and yellow was a bright enough colour to catch driver's attention and was visible at night. They became red in 1954 when a fade resistant dye was created.

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TIL as a prank, a man once climbed Mount Hood in the middle of the night and surreptitiously left a morning newspaper and a quart of milk for his friends, who were spending the night on the summit

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TIL the original Mighty Morphin Power Rangers were only paid $600 a week.

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TIL that when constructing a walkway for the Hyatt Regency, the original design was replaced by a cheap one , which was never checked by an engineer. The new plans only had 1/3 the strength needed. The walkway collapsed and killed 114 people, the deadliest accidental structural failure in US history

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TIL in 2018, an electrical engineer on board the Bellingshausen Research station in Antartica stabbed a fellow coworker in the chest multiple times because the colleague had been giving away the endings of books available in the research station’s library.

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TIL British banknotes increase in size as they increase in value to help blind people tell them apart

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