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The Sex Recession: The Share of Americans Having Regular Sex Keeps Dropping

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TIL about The United States 100,000 bill, the largest denomination note in the story of the USA which was issued from 1934 to 1935. And although 42,000 were pri...

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Guédelon Castle

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TIL Robert Patrick had been secretly battling an intense substance addiction prior to landing the T-1000 role in Terminator 2: Judgement Day (1991). Yet, in ord...

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TIL Venezuela has by far the biggest proven oil reserves in the world, but produces ~10x less oil per day than the country in second place by proven oil reserve...

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TIL the A-1 Reactor(nicknamed Annushka) melted down 3 times in its first year of operation(with the third one killing at least 173 people)

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TIL Robert Todd Lincoln, the eldest son of Abraham Lincoln, was once saved from a train accident by Edwin Booth, the brother of John Wilkes Booth, who later ass...

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TIL North Korea abducted at least 17 Japanese citizens between 1977 and 1983 to train spies in language and culture, and only five (and some of their children) ...

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TIL that Samoa is the country with the highest obesity rate in the world. More than 81% of the adults in the nation are obese

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‘I was living in Doodle Land and didn’t know how to get back’: the million-dollar artist who drew himself crazy

theguardian.com·46w·Hacker News, r/todayilearned

TIL that James Garfield once found a new, original proof of the Pythagorean theorm

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Arnold Schwarzenegger Says ‘Twins’ Earned Him More Than $40 Million After Back End Deal: More Money ‘Than Any Movie I Ever Made’

variety.com·46w·Hacker News, r/todayilearned

TIL that in 2003 Hideo Kojima designed a Game Boy Advance game with a light sensor built into the cartridge. The player's in-game weapon is charged by taking th...

en.wikipedia.org·46w·r/TwoBestFriendsPlay, r/todayilearned

TIL about Douglas Bader, a British WWII ace who lost both legs before the war. He flew with prosthetics, scored 22 kills, and became one of Britain’s top pilots...

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Today I learned that in 67 C.E., Emperor Nero found a boy named Sporus who resembled his deceased wife. Nero had him castrated, dressed in female clothing, and ...

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TIL that some people possess an extraordinary ability to recall an abnormally large number of their life experiences in vivid detail. This condition is called H...

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Ohaguro

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Woman who tricked her way into men-only Magic Circle finally allowed in

bbc.com·55w·Hacker News, r/todayilearned

Teddy bear is based on 26th US president's bear hunting incident

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Attacks on Parachutists

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