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TIL that in 1971 Andre the Giant wrestled in Baghdad in front of Saddam Hussein, who had threatened to kill him if he won the match. Andre went on to lose the m...

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r/todayilearned - TIL of Palantir CEO Alex Karp, he has tai chi swords in his offices, highly skilled with handguns, can't drive a car and has former elite ...

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TIL most incidents of a patient waking up during surgery (awareness during anesthesia) last for less than 5 minutes. Whereas, in 2008 when Donna Penner woke up ...

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TIL China's Last Emperor worked as a Street Sweeper and Gardener in Beijing after serving 10 years in a re-education camp

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TIL Lucy Lambert Hale, the fiancé of John Wilkes Booth, was considered one of the most beautiful socialites of her time. She began receiving poems from suitors ...

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TIL that the CEOs of Microsoft, Procter & Gamble, Adobe and Cobra Beer all attended the same public school in Hyderabad

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TIL that in England, football clubs are founded at the local community level and grow bottom-up, rather than being founded by big corporations at the top level ...

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TIL at a 1991 meeting of the American Astronomical Society, Andrew Lyne retracted groundbreaking results that he had recently released, which detected the first...

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TIL that the United States avoided the Thalidomide scandal due to the efforts of Dr Frances Kelsey of the FDA, who refused to approve the drug despite pressure ...

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TIL that acorns were once a worldwide food staple. Among some California tribes they were eaten more than any other food and provided over half of all calories....

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r/todayilearned - TIL in 2024 an Austrian neurosurgeon was fired after she let her 13-year-old daughter drill a hole into a patient’s skull during a surgery. Al...

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TIL The existence of planets outside our solar system wasn't confirmed until 1992

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TIL The Population of Thessaloniki, Greece was ~68% Jewish During the Ottoman Era, ca. 1613 AD; Today there are an estimated 1200 Jews Living in the City

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TIL that Hōjō Masako, the widow of Japan’s first shōgun, became a nun after his death but ended up running the shogunate from behind the scenes, crushing politi...

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TIL coffee was first introduced to India in the 17th century by a Muslim saint who, while returning from a pilgrimage to Mecca, smuggled seven coffee beans by h...

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TIL that in 604 C.E. a court wizard told Chinese Emperor Yang of Sui that living in the capital is bad for his health. So he ordered a new capital to be built a...

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TIL the Great Flood story of Noah is theorized to be an oral history recounting the spilling over of the Mediterranean Sea into the Black Sea, which at the time...

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TIL that Blizzard was tricked into making StarCraft a AAA game: it was to be a modest project but after an impressive demo of Dominion: Storm Over Gift 3 outsho...

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TIL that before chilis migrated back from the Americas, Sichuan cuisine was not spicy

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TIL Napoleon's prowess in battle was so legendary, the Trachenberg Plan was drafted to specifically avoid facing Napoleon in battle while instead targeting his ...

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