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TIL US soldiers are four times as likely to die by suicide than in combat

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TIL Richard Nixon is the only President to forgo his life-long secret service protection in order to save the taxpayers money.

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TIL that during WW2, the US government confiscated brass decor from theaters to use in the war effort. The Cadillac Palace Theatre in Chicago painted all of their brass white to hide it from the government. The brass was then forgotten about until a 1999 renovation.

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TIL Hamburgers cooked in Louis Lunch restaurant in New Haven are made on the original cast iron vertical gas broilers from 1898

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TIL Lexi Alexander based Punisher: War Zone's limited colour palate on the box of comics Marvel sent her when she signed on to direct the film. It was only later that she discovered that she'd been sent cheap, three-colour copies of the original comics to save money.

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TIL of the ABCD system of aircraft maintenance. A and B checks are routine checks, while C is more intensive. D checks happen every 6-10 years and require the entire plane to be disassembled and the paint stripped.

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TIL the song 'Ms. Jackson' is about Erykah Badu and her mother. In and Interview Badu noted that her mother loved the song so much she bought herself a 'Ms. Jackson' license plate, mug, pens. She even had the headband

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TIL "The Bladerunner" is a medical crime story that has absolutely nothing to do with the movie Blade Runner. The movie is based on a novel called "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?" The producers just liked the name "Blade Runner" and went with it.

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TIL: Usain Bolt Has Never Run a Mile

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TIL this painting was commissioned by the Utah State Court, but one judge hated it so much the state spent $25,000 to put it behind a curtain when court was in session.

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TIL Bungie recalled 200,000 copies of their 1998 strategy game "Myth 2: Soulblighter" as it was being shipped to retailers after a major bug was found in the uninstaller program that could cause most of a computers hard drive to be erased along with the game.

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TIL about Preserved Fish, who was a Famous New York Merchant in the 1800's. He's also Featured in Terry Pratchett's "Real People".

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TIL the biggest bank robbery in history was Saddam Hussein's son just walking inside the Central Bank of Iraq the night before US invasion, with a note handwritten by his father, loaded almost $1 billion into three tractor-trailers in span of two hours and left. $350 million of that was never found.

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TIL that 2500 years ago, an explorer named Hanno found a tribe of ‘hairy and savage’ people. He captured three women, but they were so ferocious that he had them killed and skinned. It’s speculated that he actually discovered gorillas. Gorillas were named after his name for the tribe.

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TIL in 2007, Jon Lovitz confronted Andy Dick at a restaurant, where Dick claimed he put the Phil Hartman hex on Lovitz, stating he was the next to die. Lovitz and Dick then had a heated encounter, resulting in Lovitz demanding an apology and eventually; smashing Dick's head into the bar.

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TIL that When Edward Safra was 16, he earned $40 million during arbitrage transactions between Italian and British gold sovereigns and used this money to obtain a financial house in Geneva which became his Trade Development Bank which used only ancient Arabic script for its bookkeeping.

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TIL darker coffee roasts have less caffeine.

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TIL In Britain during the First World War white feathers, which symbolized cowardice, were often given to males out of uniform by women to shame them publicly into signing up to join the war.

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TIL The Federal Reserve removes and shreds 5000+ tons of paper currency each year.

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TIL name of the Halliburton Company is inscribed on the dome of the Oklahoma State Capitol Building

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TIL in the Siege of Arrah 1857, an army of 11000 Indians failed to defeat the besieged 50 British soldiers and 18 civilians

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TIL the images of space you see from space telescopes like the James Webb Space Telescope and Hubble Space Telescope are initially in black and white and the colors are later edited in by people.

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TIL of Marni Nixon, a singer who dubbed the voices of many actresses in the 1950’s and 1960’s, including Natalie Wood, Audrey Hepburn and Deborah Kerr. She was told that if anyone found out about her work, she would never work in Hollywood again…

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TIL when introduced, there was a conspiracy saying the creation Zip Codes was masked Communism made “to depersonalize or dehumanize” Americans

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TIL about the Max Headroom signal hijacking. Which occurred on the night of November 22, 1987, two TV stations in Illinois were hijacked. A man wearing a Max Headroom mask made various remarks about WGN (the station being hijacking) the video ends with the man being spanked. No one was ever charged.

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TIL that the film Independence Day (1996) still holds the record for the ‘most miniature model work to appear in one film’. The record is now expected to hold forever due to CGI advances.

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TIL: Chuck norris’s first name is actually carlos

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TIL after Mr. Rogers car was stolen, the story was picked up by every newspaper, radio and media outlet around town. Within 48 hours the car was left in the exact spot where it was taken from, with an apology on the dashboard. It read, "If we'd known it was yours, we never would have taken it."

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TIL the Myers-Briggs has no scientific basis whatsoever.

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TIL that when Will Smith was 12 his grandmother found his notebook of rap lyrics with curse words and wrote a note in it telling Will that truly smart people do not have to curse when expressing themselves. As a result he resolved not to use profanity in his music.

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TIL that between 2008 and 2016, JPMorgan sent fake buy and sell orders into metals and Treasuries markets to move prices in their favor.

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TIL a typical camel can drink 53 gallons (200 liters) of water in three minutes.

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TIL that after filing a lawsuit for assault against UFC fighter Conor McGregor in 2022, which left her with a broken arm, a Dublin woman had her car set ablaze outside of her home, and later, had a brick thrown through her window. The woman subsequently dropped her suit against Conor McGregor

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TIL Lego almost went bankrupt in the 1990s but was saved in part by the unexpected success of Bionicle.

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TIL; "Hello" came to prominence as a greeting with the invention of the telephone

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TIL out of the 50 U.S. states, 46 allow a person to just decide their name has changed & start using the new one with no paperwork required.

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TIL Dwayne the rock Johnson's movie contracts do not allow his character to lose fights

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TIL that the band Len was given $100k to film the music video for “Steal My Sunshine.” They flew two dozen friends to Florida and broke their hotel elevator loading all their alcohol into it. Then they just filmed themselves relaxing and riding around in the afternoons when the hangovers wore off.

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TIL: In April this year, Dubai once again broke the record for the most expensive license plate in the world, when "7" was sold for $15 million at auction. Some countries such as Hong Kong (where "R" and "W" were $3 million) auction off rare license plate numbers to the wealthy. In the US, it's $60.

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TIL the humming noise produced by electricity is a different tone in Europe than it is in the US. The American electrical hum is a B-flat whereas the European electrical hum is a G

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TIL Sudden cardiac arrest is the leading medical cause of death in college athletes, especially among males, African Americans, and basketball players

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TIL that Brooke Greenberg, who died in 2013, had ‘Syndrome X’, which made her remain physically and cognitively similar to a 1 year old, despite being 20 years old at the time of her death.

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TIL Arsenic was known to be dangerous and addictive in the Victorian Era, but small amounts in the form of edible wafers were thought to not only be safe but to help one achieve that sought-after pale complexion, giving the skin an "indescribable brilliancy" according to advertisements.

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TIL The United States came to the aid of North Korea to fend off a pirate attack in 2007 off the coast of Mogadishu

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Til Americans have accumulated $21 billion Worth of unused gift cards. Almost 2/3 of people have a card and half of those will likely lose the gift card before using it

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TIL that when slavery was abolished in the French colonies in 1848, the native population of the largest island in Madagascar rebelled against the French government because they were heavily involved in the slave trade.

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TIL Charles Manson hypnotized Danny Trejo when they were in jail together.

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TIL telomerase is a naturally forming enzyme that helps maintain the protective caps at the ends of chromosomes, thus preventing cells from dying. When mice were genetically engineered to produce 10 times the normal levels of telomerase, they lived 50% longer than normal mice.

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TIL - the concept of animals going exinct wasn't accepted until the 1800s. Prior to this, if an extinct animal skeleton or fossil was discovered, people assumed it came from a species still around somewhere on Earth.

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TIL: In 2011, a UK man was legally banned from having sex due to his IQ of 48, the judge stating that despite his sex drive, he didn't have the mental capacity to understand health risks and should not have sex with anyone. This is legal due to the Court of Protection in Britain.

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