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TIL In 2007 Tacoma Self Storage was visited by a flock of birds. One of the birds landed atop the neon sign and accidentally hit the switch on the ‘S’. Ever since the ‘S’ has been turned off every Black Friday, going dark to make the season bright.

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TIL: Lake Chad in Central Africa is the remnant of an ancient inland sea referred to as Mega Chad

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TIL 20 years ago, Chris Evans got his first big break in Hollywood by starring in Not Another Teen Movie, in which he wore a whipped cream bikini and stuck a banana up his butt

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TIL that the Milky Way got its name because the Greek goddess Hera pulled a breastfeeding Hercules off of her boob and milk sprayed across the galaxy.

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TIL that several Hershey’s products such as Whatchamacallit, Mr. Goodbar and Krackel no longer contain milk chocolate after replacing cocoa butter with vegetable oil. The removal of cocoa butter violates the FDA's definition of milk chocolate and are now labeled “chocolate candy” or “chocolatey."

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TIL most chewing gum is made from plastics. Before the 1960s, gum was produced with chicle, a natural latex substance from the sapodilla tree. Now Polyethylene and Polyisobutylene Polyvinyl acetate most commonly make the gum base of mainstream brands. It is not biodegradable nor compostable.

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TIL During Filming of "Titanic (1997)" an angry crew member put the drug PCP into the soup that James Cameron and many others ate one night in Nova Scotia. 50 people were hospitalized as a result and the person behind the poisoning was never caught.

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TIL Thomas Jefferson made his own version of the Bible stripping Jesus of his divinity, miracles, and the resurrection and until the 1950s each newly elected US Senator received a copy.

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TIL that your USB-C Charger Is More Powerful Than Apollo 11's Computer

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TIL Quentin Tarantino refuses to share his wealth with his mother because she mocked his writing aspirations growing up.

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TIL that less than half the claims made on The Dr. Oz Show were backed by "some" evidence, and that fell to a third when the threshold was raised to "believable" evidence.

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TIL of a man named Vasile Gorgos who disappeared in Romania at the age of 63. His family thought he had died until August of this year when an unknown person dropped him off at his family home wearing the same clothes he vanished in 30 years ago

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TIL despite Americans owning more than 85 million dogs as pets, only 30-50 deaths per year are attributed to dog attacks, fewer than bees or accidental gun discharges

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TIL: As of 2018, back-up cameras in new cars are not a "feature", they are a requirement.

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TIL French King Charles VI suffered from glass delusion which is a delusion in which people believe themselves to be made of glass and thus liable to shatter. He was reported to have wrapped himself in blankets to prevent his buttocks from breaking and had iron rods put into his clothing.

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TIL that Oskar Schindler abandoned his wife after going bankrupt and returned to Germany, leaving her in Argentina. They never saw each other again in the 20 years before his death, though they remained married. The final scene of Schindler's List was her first time ever seeing his grave.

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TIL in 1921 there were 14 million telephones in the US & Canada. On August 4th all of them were simultaneously silenced by the telephone companies for one minute. This was done as a mark of respect for the telephone inventor Alexander Graham-Bell on the day of his funeral.

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TIL the Far Side was so significant in the 80s that when a cartoon was printed which was hard to understand, creator Gary Larsson felt the need to issue a press release expressing his regret & explaining the joke

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TIL Inuit and Yupik people of Alaska and Northern Canada carved narrow slits into ivory, antler and wood creating snow goggles to prevent snow blindness.

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TIL Ancient Greeks preferred small penises, as it was thought a man with a large penis was a barbarous half-animal with no self-control, while a man with a small penis was smarter and closer to the wisdom of the gods.

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TIL A number is divisible by 3 if the sum of all its digits is a multiple of 3 or divisible by 3. For example: if the number is 54, you add 5+4 which equals 9 which is divisible by 3. This works for any number; add the digits and if the sum is divisible by 3 then the whole number is divisible by 3

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TIL far and away the most expensive roller coaster ever built is Hagrid’s Magic Creatures Motorbike Adventure at Universal’s Orlando Resort, costing $300 million. Meanwhile, the second most expensive roller coaster is Expedition Everest at Disney World, costing three times less at only $100 million.

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TIL Tylenol/Acetaminophen dulls your ability to empathize with others' pain, both physical and emotional

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TIL A medieval cardinal, Nicholas of Cusa, argued that other planets had life and that the Earth was not the center of the universe.

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TIL every Australian state has only one large city and the majority of every state lives in those cities.

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TIL The Shining (1980) borrowed heavily from the previous Burnt Offerings (1976) - a haunted mansion requiring upkeep, a struggling writer with wife and son, fatherly violence toward the son, possession and slide into insanity, and getting sucked into black and white photos at the end

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TIL on December 28 1983, Dennis Wilson, co-founder and drummer of the Beach Boys, drowned at Marina Del Rey after drinking all day and then diving in the afternoon to recover his ex-wife's belongings, previously thrown overboard at the marina from his yacht three years earlier amidst their divorce.

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TIL - Shortly after the Nazi invasion of Yugoslavia, the Nazis had set up an area with captured Yugoslav aircraft. But while the German guards were listening to the news, local communists moved the fence separating the working ones from the non-working ones, leading to all aircraft being scrapped.

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TIL: The theory of probability was actually created to settle a gambling dispute. In 1654, Antoine Gombaud (a French nobleman) wanted to settle a question about a gambling game. To solve this problem, the field of probability was developed by famous mathematicians Blaise Pascal and Pierre de Fermat.

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TIL some public restrooms have blue lights instead of white lights so drug users can’t find their veins to shoot up

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TIL The first time the Beatles took acid, it was given to them by their dentist, without their knowledge or consent

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TIL: Kellogg's created Pop-Tarts after hearing about Post trying to create their own toaster pastries. Post unveiled their Country Squares to the press well before they were even ready to sell. Kellogg's released Pop-Tarts within 6 months of Post's announcement.

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TIL Alan Alda met his wife at a mutual friend's dinner party; when a rum cake accidentally fell onto the kitchen floor, they were the only two guests who did not hesitate to eat it.

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TIL that a man called Francis Clifford Smith has been serving the longest prison sentence in the world with 71 years. Sentenced to death for murder in 1949, the verdict was then commuted to life in prison in 1954, only two hours before his scheduled execution.

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TIL - The US government deported hundreds of anarchists and communists in 1919, fearing a repeat of the Russian revolution

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TIL that blue whales and fin whales can interbreed, even though the genetic distance between them is the same as that between a human and a gorilla

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TIL of a Lithuanian man living in the UK went missing in 2015, he was presumed murdered and the case went cold until 2020 when a Facebook profile with his named showed up. He had been living in woodland for 5 years completely isolated from the outside world and not sighted once in those 5 years.

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TIL letters to Santa Claus in Himmelpfort ('heaven's gate') in Germany are answered by the German postal service. In 2020, about 300,000 letters were received from 65 countries and each of it was answered, some of them in Braille. The response letters are postmarked with a special stamp.

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TIL John Brown, in 1859, was the first person to be executed for treason in the United States

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TIL that the treasure hunting company, Odyssey, discovered the ship wreck of the HMS Sussex (1694) which had up to $500 million worth of gold on board in 2001. Despite a deal with the British government retrieve the loot, Spain refuses to let a team survey the site to this this day.

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TIL The Smiley Face icon was created by ad man Harvey Ball in Worcester, Mass. in 1963. Ball was commissioned to create an image to raise morale among the employees of an insurance company after a series of difficult mergers and acquisitions. He was paid $45 for his work.

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TIL that watching a fire can lower your blood pressure

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TIL that Robocop actor, Peter Weller, earned a Ph. D in Italian Renaissance Art History in 2014

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TIL about feaguing which was the medieval practice of putting a live eel in a horse's rectum to make it seem livelier when being sold

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TIL there was a very successful Alice in Wonderland adaptation (1976 film) that also happened to be a porno...

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TIL: that you can't do drugs when playing chess competitively and you have to provide a urine sample for a drug test after each match.

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TIL that a nuclear worker in Japan was exposed to 17 Sieverts of radiation (twice the amount that should kill a person). He was kept alive for 83 days, suffering serious radiation burns to his body, severe organ failure, and an almost zero white blood cell count.

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TIL During WW II the US Army was aware that mail to soldiers was critical for morale, but overwhelmed with the volume and space it took to ship. So the resuscitated a British/Eastman Kodak method where every letter was photographed, and the film was shipped, then printed. It was called V Mail.

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TIL: There is an airport in the Scottish Western Isles where planes use a beach as the runway. Arrival & departures must be scheduled around the tides, which can cover the runway areas with up to 6 feet of water.

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TIL In 1985, Ricky Gervais's failed new wave band became a sensation in the Philippines after a radio station played one of their songs, with the song becoming a staple at high-school dances in the Philippines.

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