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TIL that the East German Trabant had a body made of recycled cotton waste and resin called Duroplast. It also didn't have a fuel gauge, requiring its owner to r...

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TIL After the wife of Roman praetor Marcus Plautius Silvanus was found dead, having fallen from her bedroom window, Emperor Tiberius personally investigated the...

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TIL in March of 2025, a Brooklyn driver named Miriam Yarimi killed a mother and two of her children by speeding through a red light. It was later determined tha...

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TIL that nowadays, millionaires with just $1 million aren’t considered wealthy anymore by most Americans. Now, the typical American sees at least $2.4 million a...

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TIL that in 2013, NBA player Brian Scalabrine, who only averaged 3 points per game in his entire career, challenged 4 volunteers who criticized him over his ben...

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TIL that in 1604 King James wrote an anti-smoking essay, "A Counterblaste to Tobacco", calling tobacco “hateful to the nose, harmful to the brain and dangerous ...

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TIL that you are not supposed to rinse out your mouth after brushing your teeth so the fluoride can strengthen your enamel and prevent tooth decay

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TIL in 1815 a man named George Wilson attempted to walk 1,000 miles around London in 20 days. After the press covered his walk, large crowds of circus acts, pro...

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TIL about Bagdad, Arizona, which is one of the last remaining company towns in the US. Freeport-McMoRan owns all of the housing and commercial buildings in Bagd...

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TIL the phrase “well behaved women seldom make history” was coined by a historian who argued we should study the lives of normal people more

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TIL GREENPEACE USA unknowingly published a wildlife photo for their upcoming 2015 calendar that was taken by a former French spy who was responsible for the bom...

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TIL Following the death of legendary martial artist and actor Bruce Lee in 1973, a Chinese actor called Bruce Li was hired as his possible successor.

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TIL that a Swedish orphan known as the Gävle Boy led children in false accusations that ignited a witch panic in Stockholm. When he confessed he had lied other ...

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TIL that North Korea has a caste system, based on what your ancestors were doing before 1953. The bottom caste includes descendants of "capitalists", Christians...

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TIL George Washington was the only president in American history to be unanimously elected by the Electoral College

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TIL North Korea's capital, Pyongyang, has a subway system. The Pyongyang Metro is one of the deepest in the world (360 ft.) and has the cheapest fare (half a US...

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TIL that Anthony Perkins, famously known for his role as Norman Bates in Psycho, learned he was HIV-positive from a tabloid newspaper. While undergoing blood te...

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TIL about the “Maze Procedure,” in which heart surgeons literally scarify a maze into heart tissue so abnormal rhythms get trapped while normal ones can pass th...

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TIL Daniel Schorr, the journalist who read Nixon's infamous enemies list on TV live, discovered his own name was in the list while reading it.

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TIL of the Great Stink of 1858 London, caused by a combination of hot weather and untreated human waste, which led to the construction of a new sewer system tha...

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