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TIL when Marie Curie married she actually changed her surname to "Skłodowska-Curie", so she kept her Polish maiden name for her whole life

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TIL that when you burn a pound of fat, 84% leaves your body as CO2, so after you run, you are basically breathing out the fat you burned

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TIL Ludacris got the opportunity to act in 2 Fast 2 Furious after Ja Rule turned down $500K to return. Director John Singleton said "Ja was acting like he was t...

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TIL over half of Americans use subtitles at least some of the time while watching TV, and the biggest reason is that dialogue has become harder to hear. One con...

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TIL Periconceptional alcohol consumption by fathers is associated with an increased risk of 1.43 times for autism and 2.71 times for ADHD

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TIL the town of Colma, California has about 1,000 dead people for every 1 live person, being a necropolis. It's motto is "It's great to be alive in Colma."

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TIL that despite being in service for 25 years, the F22 has only scored 3 air-to-air kills, the first of which was a Chinese balloon in 2023.

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TIL that Scientologists advocate "silent birth," in which everyone attending a birth avoids speaking as much as possible, because "any words spoken can have an ...

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TIL Susanna Hoffs said she recorded the vocals for Eternal Flame while naked to achieve a free yet vulnerable sound, after her producer said Olivia Newton-John ...

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TIL that Keith Moon, drummer for "The Who," was fond of blowing up hotel toilets. Starting with cherry bombs he later graduated to dynamite. Once, in response t...

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TIL 95% of Americans don't get the minimum recommended amount of fiber

pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov·31w·r/todayilearned

TIL the producer of the movie Manos: The Hands of Fate was a fertilizer salesman who bet that it was "not difficult to make a horror movie." The movie is today ...

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TIL Tom Cruise does not permit his likeness to be used for merchandise. Nevertheless, Funko created a figure of his character Nick Morton from the 2017 film "Th...

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TIL that during a visit to Fiji in 2000, rowdy Australian sailors from the HMAS Arunta accidentally set in motion the 2000 Fijian coup detat.

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TIL that after Robert Lawrence Jr. was selected as America's first Black astronaut in 1967, he was asked at a press conference "if he had to sit at the back of ...

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TIL The Average weight for males in the United States ages 20 years and older is 199.8 pounds

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TIL of "broken Arrows" - A term referring to an accidental event that involves nuclear weapons, warheads or components that does not create a risk of nuclear wa...

atomicarchive.com·31w·r/todayilearned

TIL a couple dressed up as "Mary and her little lamb" for a Halloween party, and the man caught fire after deciding to light a cigarette. They sued Johnson & Jo...

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r/todayilearned - Today I Learned Macaulay Culkin changed his name to "Macaulay Macaulay Culkin Culkin"

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TIL that Lothar Hermann, a German Holocaust survivor who discovered Adolf Eichmann's whereabouts in Argentina, was arrested in 1961 after misinformation led Arg...

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