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TIL there was a successful petition to get an Australian prisoner released after his 100th birthday, only for him to say "don't be fucking silly I live here" an...

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TIL Armand Hammer didn't create Arm & Hammer baking soda. The brand existed 31 years before he was born, though he later bought stock in the company because peo...

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TIL that lawns cover over 40 million acres in the U.S., more than any single food crop. If just 10% were restored to native plants, it would create a pollinator...

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TIL about the West Virginia mine wars. “The largest armed insurrection in U.S. history outside the Civil War” organized by laborers against their enployers.

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TIL King Sennacherib, a king of ancient Assyria from 704-681 BC, issued some of the earliest parking laws in recorded history. 'No Parking' signs were placed al...

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r/todayilearned - TIL There is a Restaurant in Japan called 'The restaurant of mistaken orders' that employs people with Dementia

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TIL an advertising agency faked a movement to support book burning in order to create animosity against them and so subsequently save a local public library tha...

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TIL There are more speakers of a language called Kannada than the population of Canada.

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TIL Danny DeVito directed a horror film starring William Fichtner and the late Lance Reddick entitled "St. Sebastian". Completed in 2012, it has never been rele...

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TIL China shut down their last steam locomotive freight lines in 2022, leaving North Korea and Bosnia the only countries with Steam Trains in non-heritage servi...

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TIL an actor in Nazi Germany was fired for being Jewish. He grew a beard, dyed all his hair by bathing in diluted hydrogen and returned to the stage claiming to...

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TIL Pixar had to complete the entire Toy Story 2 in 9 months to meet Disney's deadline, The production was so straining that in one instance, an animator had fo...

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TIL that quantum field theory predicts the energy density of empty space to be about 10⁸ GeV⁴. In 2015 it was measured to actually be about 2.5 × 10⁻⁴⁷ GeV⁴, wh...

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TIL in latter seasons of the 1987 animated TV series Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, Michelangelo's nunchaku were replaced with a grappling hook called the "Turtl...

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TIL Poodles used to be bred for hunting and working

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TIL Roger Moore quit playing James Bond because he was uncomfortable with the age-gap between himself and his female co-stars, stating they “were young enough t...

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TIL that Mexico City has a bigger population than New York City and is #1 in North America

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TIL that Rampage Jackson put the title of a house he paid 1.1 million for under the company owned by his manager from advice by his manager. His manager decided...

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TIL in 2021, a New Zealand woman said she was looking forward to breathing easier and having a straighter nose after doctors removed a calcified Tiddlywink that...

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TIL there's a Hungarian population since the Middle Ages in Moldavia, Romania called "Csangos", with a unique archaic dialect and Roman Catholic religion

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