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TIL that Queen were not originally meant to perform at the 1985 Live Aid benefit concert at Wembley Stadium. Organiser Bob Geldof believed "their star had risen...

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TIL the Mbabram (a formally isolated and now extinct Australian Aboriginal language) used the word “dog” to mean “dog”. The word evolved completely independentl...

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TIL There are hallucinogenic fish, with some trips lasting several days as a result of consumption.

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TIL that after "F*ck It (I Don't Want You Back)" by Eamon went #1 in the UK, a woman named "Frankee" pretending to be his ex recorded "F.U.R.B. (F*ck You Right ...

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TIL in 1342, the city of Florence appointed a foreigner, as temporary governor in order to fix their banking and debt crisis. His attempts to tax the rich and r...

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TIL only about 10% of actively managed large cap funds have beaten the S&P 500 over the past decade, meaning 90% of people who paid wealth managers would have b...

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TIL in 2006 a transplant heart was removed from a patient whose own heart had recovered. In 1995, surgeon Magdi Yacoub had not removed the original heart during...

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r/todayilearned - TIL in 2022 Tiger Woods turned down an offer of somewhere between $700 million-$800 million to leave the PGA tour and join LIV Golf.

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TIL that Bayume Mohamed Husen, a Black German born in East Africa who served in the German army during WWI and later worked as an actor in Nazi propaganda films...

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TIL that Charles Guiteau, the man who shot and killed James A. Garfield, dictated an autobiography from prison to the New York Herald and ended it with a person...

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TIL Grand Duchess Elizabeth was the Aunt and Sister-in-Law of Tsar Nicholas II. After her husband's assassination in 1905, she joined a convent and devoted her ...

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TIL about Haym Salomon, a Jewish merchant, who personally lent over $650,000 (~$20 million in 2025) to fund the American Revolutionary War in 1775. The money he...

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TIL for nearly a thousand years, the ancient world’s most popular and admired comedian was Menander of Athens. Ironically, his work was lost to history until 19...

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TIL - First-ever recording of a dying human brain shows waves similar to memory flashbacks

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TIL that the only Mazda Furai ever made, burned down during a Top Gear photo session in 2008. The wherabouts of the remains of that car is not publically known.

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TIL that Minneapolis and Saint Paul’s rivalry once led to them building competing cathedrals and baseball stadiums, and even disagreeing on daylight saving time...

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TIL one of the earliest and most notorious uses of the "correlation does not imply causation" argument was by R A Fisher, the British polymath and father of mod...

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TIL that during WWII, Britain took down around 50,000 road signs so German invaders wouldn’t know where they were going.

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TIL that Dan Aykroyd has Asperger, Tourette's, and heterochromia (two different colored eyes)

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TIL Goombas (mushroom enemies) were added to Super Mario Bros. only after playtesters felt Koopa Troopas (turtles) were too tricky as an enemy. There was very l...

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