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TIL that Dundee or Dundee United is Nigerian slang for an idiot. It dates back to the football club Dundee United tour of Nigeria in 1972, where they lost sever...

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TIL that the Kiso Uma, the only horse breed native to Japan's main island of Honshu, nearly went extinct from an Imperial Japanese Army program. The population ...

morethantokyo.com·35w·r/todayilearned

TIL that after the success of NWA, the Bloods & Crips formed their own eponymous rap group. Auditions were held with real gang members, who were envious of NWA'...

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TIL that while a kilogram is defined by a physcal object (the only object in the world that weighs exactly 1kg), a pound is legally defined as exactly 0.4535923...

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TIL selling of contraception were banned in Ireland until 1980. Irish women circumvented the ban by complaining of heavy or irregular periods to doctor, and pre...

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TIL about the Sturddlefish. In 2019, scientists accidentally inseminated a sturgeon with paddlefish sperm and created living hybrids, though the two species div...

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TIL a man, who was convicted of drug trafficking in 2003, was forced to forfeit lottery winnings of $5.4 million because the ticket was purchased with proceeds ...

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TIL an indian man was killed by a flying cow that was launched 100ft into the air after it was hit by a train.

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TIL A man named Merlin invented the first patented inline roller skates in the 1760's. He didn't come up with a way to stop though and crashed into a giant mirr...

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TIL of the Mishima incident. On 11/25/1970, Japanese writer Yukio Mishima and his militia entered a military base in Tokyo, took its commandant hostage, and tri...

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TIL that the single greatest concentration of shark attacks on human history took place when the USS Indianapolis was sunk by a Japanese submarine on 30 July 19...

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TIL in most countries of the world, houseowners outnumber those who rent their homes. Germany and Switzerland are among the exceptions to this trend.

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TIL Michal Prasek, a Czech man who made headlines in 2018 after a cyclist collided with a lioness he was walking on a leash, was mauled to death in 2019 by a li...

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TIL that when your hands or legs “fall asleep” it isn’t from restricted blood flow, it’s from a pinched nerve.

verywellhealth.com·35w·r/todayilearned

TIL that Vietnamese revolutionary Lê Đức Thọ became the only person to ever refuse the Nobel Peace Prize when, in 1973, the Prize was jointly awarded to both Th...

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TIL On 23 August, 2001, Mossad gave the name of 9/11 lead hijacker to the CIA as one of 19 belonging to US residents suspected of planning an imminent against t...

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r/todayilearned - TIL that Martin Luther married Katharina von Bora a former nun who he helped escaped from her convent.

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TIL - The world's oldest recorded joke (1900BC) is a saying of the Sumerians, who lived in what is now southern Iraq and goes: "Something which has never occurr...

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TIL Quentin Tarantino got the idea for Death Proof (2007) from Sean Penn. One night while sharing drinks, Tarantino said he wanted to buy a Volvo because of its...

faroutmagazine.co.uk·35w·r/todayilearned

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