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TIL Larry Ellison, the World’s New Richest Man, owns 98% of Lanai, Hawaii’s Sixth Largest Island

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r/todayilearned - TIL that Belgian chemist Leo Baekeland, while trying to make a shellac substitute in 1907, accidentally invented Bakelite; the first fully syn...

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TIL that actress and singer Julie Andrews, known for her leading roles in 60s movies Mary Poppins and The Sound of Music, had her singing voice permanently dest...

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TIL the creator of version control software Git, Linus Torvalds, once quipped about the name "git" (which is British English slang for an unpleasant or silly pe...

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TIL about IG (Internet Group), in 2001 the most accessed news portal in Brazil. Due to the constant flurry of bad news, especially due to urban violence, they d...

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r/todayilearned - TIL it's legal to clone your pets

education.nationalgeographic.org·907w

TIL we all have tiny crystals inside our ears. They are made from calcium carbonate and they help with maintaining our balance. If they become dislodged it can ...

news.sanfordhealth.org·35w·r/todayilearned

TIL Texas did away with last meal request to death row inmates in 2011

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TIL about Thomas Grasso, a murderer who was executed in 1995. He requested 24 mussels, 24 clams, a cheeseburger, 6 ribs, 2 milkshakes, a pie, strawberries and a...

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TIL the trash chute in the luxury Manhattan skyscraper at 432 Park Ave is an uninterrupted 1400 foot drop. Trash dropped from the upper floors falls at speeds r...

reddit.com·907w·r/todayilearned

TIL that on 11 September, 2001, a small Canadian town called Gander became a haven for thousands of airline passengers and crew stranded after the 9/11 terror a...

bbc.com·35w·r/todayilearned

TIL after meeting at a dinner in 1837, french PM François Guizot and Princess Dorothea von Lieven became enamored and started writing to echother every single d...

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_alcoholic_drinks

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TIL that Plato was sold into slavery when attempting to tell Dionysius, the tyrant of Syracuse, to change his ways and embrace moderation. He would later be ran...

aeon.co·35w·r/todayilearned

TIL surfers are more likely to carry antibiotic-resistant bacteria due to prolonged exposure to sewage

ioes.ucla.edu·35w·r/todayilearned

TIL the Denise and Sandra Huxtable castings were the runner up choices. Lisa Bonet won the role for Denise after the front runner refused to commit to the produ...

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TIL in 2015, a wine bar in the U.K. was fined £100,000 after a woman underwent lifesaving surgery to have her stomach removed, following her consumption of a li...

theguardian.com·35w·r/todayilearned

TIL about Theodore Streleski, a former graduate student of mathematics at Stanford University who murdered his advisor with a ball-peen hammer after spending 19...

en.wikipedia.org·35w·r/todayilearned

TIL Caffeine doesn’t actually give you energy, it works by blocking adenosine, a neurotransmitter in your brain that makes you feel sleepy. By doing so, caffein...

healthline.com·35w·r/todayilearned

TIL that people with severe aphasia (language loss from left brain damage) often retain the ability to swear normally even when they've lost most other speech a...

sciencedirect.com·35w·r/todayilearned

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