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TIL the 'All Red Line' was a system of electrical telegraphs that linked much of the British Empire from 1902. 8,000 tonnes of cable was needed to complete the ...

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TIL that Jackson Pollock abandoned titles and started numbering his works. His wife, Lee Krasner, said, "He used to give his pictures conventional titles, but n...

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TIL that when President McKinley was shot in 1901, the best surgeon around was knee-deep in a complex operation. When told he was needed elsewhere, he replied t...

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TIL that the seminal vesicle are the sole producer of fructose sugar in the human body and that rape tests look for the presence of it.

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TIL the "five stages of grief" model is considered scientifically unverified and many experts caution against taking it at face value (link to study in comments...

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TIL American citizens can make a “citizen’s arrest” if they witness a misdemeanor or they have reasonable cause or belief the arrested person committed a felony...

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TIL a large portion of mercury in fish is from coal-burning power plants

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TIL that from 1886 to 1917 and from 1923 to 1948, margarine was banned in Canada

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TIL that when Nevada was in the process of becoming a U.S state, Governor James W. Nye became frustrated that previous attempts to send a copy of the state's co...

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TIL Domino Pizza planned to add a dot for every new place they opened. The idea was quickly abandoned due to how fast they grew and expanded

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TIL: Winston Churchill (1963) and Mother Teresa (1996) are the only two people ever granted honorary U.S. citizenship while alive.

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TIL That in 1849 President Zachary Taylor threaten to personally lead the U.S. Army against Southern states that attempted to secede and vowed to hang the "orch...

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TIL The last unclimbed mountain in Japan was climbed in 1907 but at the top they found evidence that it had been climbed 1000 years before.

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TIL Part of the reason why Thai restaurants are so common is because the Thai government paid for it.

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TIL about Iron Mike Malloy who survived his “friends” trying to murder him for insurance money using antifreeze, turpentine, horse liniment, rat poison, wood al...

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TIL on the seabed between Catalina Island and the mainland lies barrels of DDT.

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TIL in 1934. Mussolini ordered that the Tower of Pisa be returned to a vertical position. 361 holes were drilled into the foundations, and 90 cubic meters of co...

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TIL thar the House of Reuss practises a unique system of naming and numbering the male members of the family, every one of whom for centuries has borne the name...

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TIL the UK is one of only two countries in the world to give religious figures a permanent seat in the legislature, the other being Iran

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TIL your gums do not grow back after receding.

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