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TIL Dr Freeman Dyson called the Dyson sphere a "little joke" and expressed amusement in that "you get to be famous only for the things you don't think are serio...

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TIL Harold Butler, the founder of Denny’s, once tried to buy Caesar’s Palace but was accused of secretly offering shareholders illegal deals. The failed bid tan...

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TIL that there is a Jackson Pollock painting that was confiscated by the Iranian Customs Services for money owed by the Iran's Ministery of Culture. The artwork...

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TIL that Adolphe Sax, the inventor of the saxophone, survived multiple near-deaths as a child. Among the near misses were: falling three floors, being struck in...

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TIL in 2013 a California woman waited outside a county jail for several hours in order to slap someone because she wanted to go to jail so she could stop smokin...

nbcnews.com·34w·r/todayilearned

TIL a Swedish prisoner, who had been complaining about a toothache for 4 days, decided to escape because he "just couldn't stand it." However, after he got the ...

huffpost.com·34w·r/todayilearned

TIL that in 1946-1947 a British ski champion stole & vandalized over 3000 butterfly specimens from Australian museums, and they're still trying to sort out the ...

science.anu.edu.au·34w·Hacker News, r/todayilearned

TIL that during the May 1968 general strike in France, around 10 million people, or nearly two-thirds of the French workforce, went on strike.The movement paral...

isreview.org·34w·r/todayilearned

TIL that in the original draft of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, nine Golden Tickets are offered, with more children succumbing to the Factory. One such cha...

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https://gpseducation.oecd.org/CountryProfile?primaryCountry=CAN&treshold=10&topic=EO#:~:text=With%20a%20tertiary%20educational%20attainment,the%20OECD%2...

gpseducation.oecd.org·907w

TIL judicial flogging in the United States was last carried out in 1952(!), when a Delaware wife-beater got 20 lashes

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TIL that Target operates two criminal forensics laboratories, and offers pro bono services to law enforcement across the country

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r/todayilearned - TIL that the initial title of Alien was Star Beast. Its writer disliked it and changed it to Alien after noting the number of times that the w...

en.wikipedia.org·907w·r/todayilearned

r/todayilearned - TIL in 2004 a woman was arrested after she tried to use a fake $1 million bill that had a picture of the Statue of Liberty on it to buy $1,675...

nbcnews.com·907w·r/todayilearned

https://theseasideinstitute.org/can-a-600-lb-octopus-fit-through-a-hole-the-size-of-a-quarter/

theseasideinstitute.org·907w

TIL there’s a submerged island in the Mediterranean that has only surfaced 4 or 5 times since the Punic Wars. During its last resurfacing in 1831, the island be...

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TIL in 2009 a Tennessee man confessed to killing a woman in 1995 on his "deathbed" after he suffered a heart attack & thought he was going to die. However, he s...

cbsnews.com·34w·r/todayilearned

TIL a Virginia man discovered he had unintentionally left his phone recording before undergoing a colonoscopy, and while he was under anesthesia, it captured au...

nbcwashington.com·34w·r/todayilearned

TIL the Simpsons creators shelved an Itchy & Scratchy spinoff because it made test audiences physically ill

slashfilm.com·34w·r/todayilearned

TIL that Richard Nixon is the only US president to be born on the west coast, and in any mainland state west of Texas

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