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TIL that in a part of India, people kill old people by making them drink an excessive amount coconut water. The process is known as Thalaikoothal.

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TIL of brain stimulation reward, manually stimulating specific parts of the brain to elicit pleasure and happiness. A volunteer subject in 1986 spent days doing...

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TIL US presidents Harry Truman & Dwight Eisenhower both wanted to abolish the Marine Corps

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TIL that James Buchanan was the only U.S. President to remain a lifelong bachelor.

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TIL that the Wichita language, once spoken by the Wichita people of Oklahoma, went extinct in 2016 when its last fluent speaker, Doris McLemore, passed away.

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TIL the CIA had a secret hacking arsenal called “Vault 7” capable of turning phones, TVs, and even cars into surveillance tools which was leaked back in 2017

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TIL that after Betty White's death, the Smithsonian acquired her WWII AWVS uniform and shoulder bag, which turned out to be a time capsule filled with artifacts...

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TIL Northern Calloway, who played David on Sesame Street from '71 to '89, had a breakdown in 1980 in Nashville's suburbs where he attacked a woman with an iron,...

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r/todayilearned - TIL that Congressman Lucas Miller once proposed a failed amendment to change the name of the U.S. to the “United States of Earth”.

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TIL George Washington is known as the father of the American mule. Uncommon on American farms, he believed they were more docile and hardworking than donkeys or...

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Today I learned that in Mormonism, the first Pharaoh of Egypt was literally named Pharaoh and his mother was named Egyptus. There is no basis for this in any ot...

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TIL that there’s a black market for sand worth 200 to 350 billion USD primarily due to its importance in construction

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TIL a 28-year-old South Korean man died after playing Starcraft for nearly 50 hours straight with minimal food or sleep.

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TIL that in 1935 Germany, 80% of prisoners held through protective custody in concentration camps were there for alleged homosexuality.

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TIL that five U.S. Presidents (Thomas Jefferson, John Q. Adams, Theodore Roosevelt, Calvin Coolidge, and Lyndon Johnson) didn’t take their Presidential Oath on ...

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TIL Columbia Pictures president Harry Cohn actively prevented the Three Stooges from discovering how popular they were. Despite their films being in extremely h...

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TIL that Anton LaVey, founder of the Church of Satan, strongly condemned drug use and hated rock/metal even without “satanic” lyrics

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TIL the Nobel Peace Prize wasn’t awarded in 1948 because the committee wanted to give it to Mahatma Gandhi — but he had been assassinated earlier that year. On ...

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TIL when Monica Bellucci was casted in Spectre as James Bond's love interest, it made her the oldest "Bond Girl" at the age of 50. The second is Honor Blackman,...

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TIL that Pink from "Dazed and Confused" and Quint from "Mallrats" were not played by the same person, but rather by separate twin brothers

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