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TIL Jewish Americans have made a tradition of eating Chinese food during the holiday season since the early 1900s

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TIL that giraffes live in two tribes. Male and female. They only come together for mating. Outside of that male giraffes have sex with other males. Often after necking contests where the winner dominates the loser with penetrative sex.

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TIL Jason Alexander didn’t realize at first that George Costanza was supposed to be Larry David. At one point he went to Larry and said “Nobody would ever get in this situation, and if they did, they wouldn’t react this way.” Larry said “What? This happened to me, and that’s exactly how I reacted.”

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TIL Most Breyers' products no longer contain enough milk and cream to meet labeling requirements for ice cream, and are now labeled "Frozen Dairy Dessert" in the United States

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TIL Times Square was Longacre Square until the New York Times moved their headquarters there in 1904. To celebrate the move, publisher Adolph Ochs staged a New Year's Eve fireworks display, and three years later organized the first NYE ball drop.

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TIL about a company called Washboard that launched in 2014 that mailed you $10 in quarters each month for your laundry machine at a cost of $14.99. They signed up less than 10 customers

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TIL a guard in India discovered frozen lake absolutely full of skeletons, 5,000 meters above sea level in the Himalayan Mountains.

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TIL there are no railways and no roads connecting any of the towns in Greenland. Historically the major means of transportation has been by boat around the coast in summer and by dog sled in winter. Nowadays air travel, by helicopter or other aircraft, is the main way of travel.

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TIL that Chip bags are filled with air not to trick us that their full, but to preserve the chips and make sure they don’t get crushed or get stale when they are shipped to stores

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TIL that in 1946, the University of Tennessee forfeited a basketball game against Duquesne because they had one black player in Chuck Cooper on the team. Tennessee's coach asked Duquesne's coach to not play Cooper "unless he had to", but Duquesne refused. Duquesne won 2-0 due to Tennessee's forfeit.

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TIL that prairie dogs have one of, if not THE most complicated language in the animal kingdom outside of humans, even describing discusses, size, and color of potential predators.

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TIL that a US park ranger, Roy Sullivan, was known as the 'human lightning rod'. He was struck by lightning 7 times between 1942 and 1977 and survived all encounters. Roy holds the world record for being struck by lightning more times than any other human. He died in 1983 due to suicide.

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TIL about "Rabbit starvation." It's a malnutrition caused by eating too mucg protein and not enough fat. It has historically been caused by eating rabbit meat exclusively, which is too lean

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TIL in 2017, a 10-minute song of silence entitled "A a a a a Very Good Song" became one of the top selling songs on iTunes because it helped solve the problem of car stereos playing the first song from an iPhone playlist in alphabetical order, giving people enough time to pick a song.

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TIL John Madden was actually EA's third choice behind Joe Montana and Joe Kapp to be their pitchman for their NFL game franchise.

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TIL 35% of programmers reportedly used marijuana while working, with many touting creative benefits

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TIL Nicolas Cage was originally given the leading role in The Wrestler (2009), but passed it on to Mickey Rourke, believing he would be a better fit. The film went on to win a Golden Lion and was nominated for two Academy Awards.

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TIL The board game Candy Land was made to entertain hospital-bound children during the Polio Pandemic

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TIL Pineapples were very expensive in the 1700s, so American colonists would rent pineapples and carry them around parties to flaunt their wealth.

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TIL that in 2013, Metallica performed a concert in Antarctica to a group of 120 scientists and contest winners; thereby becoming the first and to-date only band to have performed on all seven continents.

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TIL about 'The Rally'-a phenomenon that occurs when a critical patient is expected to pass away in a few days. At some point during last days (and sometimes even the final day of life), they appear to be "all better," meaning they'll eat more, talk more, and even walk around.

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TIL in 2018 a bag of 54 severed human hands was found in Siberia

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TIL after only 4 years of primary school, German children are placed on one of four tracks: Hauptschule for less academic students, Realschule for intermediary students, Gymnasium for academic students, or Gesamtschule (comprehensive school). Only Gymnasium entitles one to attend university

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TIL: Alice Cooper was friends with Groucho Marx, who had insomnia. Alice would come over, the two would watch TV, and Alice would sniff out his cigar, put a blanket over him and lock the door when Groucho fell asleep.

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TIL Soviet cosmonaut Vladimir Komarov was given an open casket despite having a mutilated body and the Soviet government only being able to recover a chipped heal bone because it was his last wish and a way to send a message to the government officials who had forced his flight in a dangerous craft.

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TIL that the USPS has a program called Operation Santa where they publish letters to Santa. You can "adopt" a letter and fulfill it's Christmas wish, and this year 24,991 letters were adopted.

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TIL of Frances Oldham Kelsey - who refused to authorize thalidomide for release in the US despite pressure from the drug's manufacturer. The drug caused tens of thousands of infant deaths and deformities in 46 other countries around the world.

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TIL Daniel Balsam is a US man who got so infuriated with constant email spam that he quit his job, got a law degree and has so far earned over 1 million USD in court judgements against the spammers

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TIL Around one in four Labradors apparently have a gene variant that leaves them feeling constantly hungry with no 'off-switch' when they're full.

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TIL: the phrase "drinking the kool-aid" comes from the Jonestown massacre: "people drank the cyanide-laced punch, which birthed the phrase “drinking the Kool-Aid,” referring to those who blindly and foolishly follow something."

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TIL in Bamber Bridge (Lancashire, UK) 1943, after an altercation the 3 pubs displayed "black troops only" signs after US troops tried to impose segregation.

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TIL that in 1939, a Maine State Representative named Cleveland Sleeper drafted a bill to outlaw the use of tomatos in clam chowder. The punishment for breaking this law was to have the individual dig up a barrel of clams at high tide, which is impossible.

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TIL that New Zealand is the only country in the world where women tend to have had more sexual partners than men, according to a 2007 study run by condom-maker Durex

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TIL that there are 20 million tons of gold in the sea.

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TIL Maria Sharapova & her father arrived in Florida from Nyagan, Russia with only $700. Sharapova's father worked low-paying jobs to save up enough money to send her to IMG Academy sports school with a tuition of $35K per year. Today, Sharapova has earned $285 million according to Forbes.

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TIL Canadian actor Barry Pepper (Saving Private Ryan, The Green Mile, 61*) sailed the South Pacific with his family on a homemade ship for five years beginning when he was 5 years old.

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TIL in 1869, George Hull hired people to make a stone statue of a man, bury it, then later pretend to discover an ancient giant. The hoax was so lucrative that P.T. Barnum offered $50,000. The owner declined. Barnum had a replica made and said he had the real giant and the owner had the fake.

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TIL about “The Harris’s List”, a catalogue from the 1700’s of all the prostitutes in London during that period, where you could find any sex workers’ address, price, age, skills, and it would rate their performance and describe their appearance. It was published annually for decades

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TIL Online Trolls Actually Just Assholes All the Time, Study Finds. The internet just gives them a “megaphone to announce their opinions.”

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TIL in 2010 a group of friends fabricated an absurd case to bring on Jude Judy in order to get a free trip to LA and $1,500

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TIL: Dire Straits' "Sultans of Swing" was about a real jazz band that Mark Knopfler saw one night in a pub

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TIL Ex-UFC fighter and podcaster Brendan Schaub has the worst rated (1.6/10) comedy special in history

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TIL that Giant Anteaters have killed people. There have been 2 documented attacks in the wild both resulted in the death of people hunting them. The anteaters slashed at the hunters with their long claws, hitting the femoral artery, making the victims bleed to death.

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TIL that History Channel had a show called "hunting hitler" that posited the idea that hitler escaped his bunker, and the cast of the show thought a picture of Moe Howard (one of the Three Stooges) was literally Hitler

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TIL an American in the early 1900s dredged the Sacred Cenote in Chichén Itzá and illegally smuggled to the US nearly 30,000 Mayan artifacts found at the bottom of the cenote. The bulk of the find is in a storage room in the Peabody Museum at Harvard.

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TIL most of today's beer is based on the pale lager brewed in 1842 in the town of Pilsen in the present-day Czech Republic.

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TIL That the pressure to feel upbeat can make you feel downbeat. Embracing your darker moods is better in the long-run, psychology researchers found.

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TIL According to writer-comedian Bob Odenkirk, John Candy was reputedly the "most-burned potential host" of SNL, in that he was asked to host many times, only for plans to be changed by the SNL staff at the last minute.

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TIL a horse produces about 15 horsepower. Elite human athletes like Usain Bolt can produce about 3.5hp at their peak.

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TIL Prince Charles is a descendant of the real life Dracula (Vlad the Impaler)

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