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TIL a British man won £1.45m on a six-race rollover jackpot after placing a £2 bet. He correctly selected 6 winners including the final horse, Lupita, who hadn'...

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r/todayilearned - TIL during the Constitutional Convention, John Rutledge—one time Governor of South Carolina—informed his fellow delegates that the three south...

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TIL that in 1910, Louis and Temple Abernathy crossed America by horseback without adult supervision, from Oklahoma to Manhattan. They were just 10 and 6 years o...

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TIL Beethoven’s relationship with his brother Johann was strained. He opposed Johann marrying his housekeeper so much he tried contacting the authorities to sto...

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TIL the only known uninterrupted audio of 9/11 is a conversation between a tax consultant and a tax assessor who was being investigated for taking bribes. The c...

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TIL that, US Labor law originally banned members of the Communist party from holding union office

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TIL that voiceovers in movie trailers became rare in 2008 after the man who did the voiceovers, Don LaFontaine, died.

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TIL people with red hair may need up to 20% more anesthesia. This is because of MCR1 mutation.

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TIL that in the late 18th century some wealthy individuals would pay poor people (preferably younger) to extract their teeth and have it transplanted into an em...

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TIL in the Philippines the presidential and vice presidential elections are separate, so the winners may end up to be from opposing parties

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TIL The first president of the South American country Guyana was Arthur Chung, the first ethnically Chinese head of state of a non Asian country

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TIL "the first unambiguous evidence" of an animal other than humans making plans in one mental state for a future mental state occurred in 1997 when a chimpanze...

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TIL in 2015, actor Terrence Howard formulated his own theory called 'Terryology' which he claimed proves 1x1=2. He also claims he can kill gravity, remembers th...

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TIL that 19th-century doctors fabricated “bicycle face” to discourage women from cycling

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TIL the first ever European settlement in the mainland Americas is the little-known town of Santa María la Antigua del Darién.

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TIL that around 900,000 years ago humans nearly went extinct, with genetic evidence showing only about 1,280 individuals survived to repopulate the planet.

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TIL the Romans had so many different gods that in later antiquity one theologian noted that there were at least three different gods just dealing with doorways,...

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TIL New York is the only state in the US that allows avunculate marriage (uncle/aunt-niece/nephew marriage)

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TIL René Laennec invented the stethoscope in 1816 because he thought it was improper to press his ear on a woman’s chest and found that a tube let him hear hear...

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