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TIL Russia was forced to release ten pirates who had taken over an oil tanker, due to having insufficient legal grounds to detain them. They released them in an inflatable boat without any navigation equipment. Radio contact was lost within an hour. It’s believed that they all perished.
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Submitted September 26, 2019 at 07:22PM by Tokyono
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TIL that a baby prince from the Khwarezmian Empire was sold as a slave after the Mongols invaded their land and killed his family. He arrived in Egypt and rose among the ranks until he became king. He then lead the army and served the Mongols one of their first major defeats in history.
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Submitted September 26, 2019 at 10:02PM by Chr0nic0
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TIL witches were never depicted with green skin before the 1939 Wizard of Oz film. Witches were commonly depicted as red or orange beforehand. The Wicked Witch of the West was not described as green in the book, and she was only made green in the film because it looked really good in technicolor.
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Submitted September 26, 2019 at 10:42PM by DonutSoda
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TIL Eartha Kitt - known as the original singer of "Santa Baby" and the voice of Izma in The Emperor's New Groove - was blacklisted by the CIA after telling Lady Bird Johnson, "You send the best of this country off to be shot and maimed. No wonder the kids rebel and take pot."
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Submitted September 27, 2019 at 12:49AM by Kintpuash-of-Kush
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TIL Scooby Doo did a parody of The Blair Witch Project that was aired only once on Cartoon Network
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Submitted September 27, 2019 at 02:05AM by Noah1237
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TIL over $900 billion has been spent “attempting to bring Matt Damon back from distant places” in fiction
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Submitted September 27, 2019 at 03:24AM by treefox
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TIL that ~95% of the material for the set on Matrix Reloaded and Revolutions was salvaged and reused, some going towards companies who build housing for low-income families.
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Submitted September 27, 2019 at 01:11AM by Cutty_Wren
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TIL that a “buttload” is an actual unit of measure equivalent to about 475 liters. A “butt” is an old name for a barrel used to store wine or rum
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Submitted September 27, 2019 at 06:20AM by Ascott1963
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TIL that Alaska, Hawaii, Maine and Vermont have banned billboard advertising.
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Submitted September 27, 2019 at 08:54AM by Dieheartfan
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TIL that Steve from Blue’s Clues once showed up unannounced to a kid’s birthday party after seeing a party sign and blue paw print on the house’s mailbox. He showed up in character and costume, handed our presents and refused any compensation from the parents.
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Submitted September 27, 2019 at 11:29AM by IdkINeedAnAlt
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TIL the Lincoln Cathedral in England was, upon completion in 1311, the first and only structure in the world built taller than the Great Pyramid of Giza, which had held the record since the 2560s BC. The Cathedral lost its record in 1548 because the top fell off from wind.
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Submitted September 27, 2019 at 07:12AM by DisgruntledNumidian
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TIL The songwriter Robert Lopez is responsible for co-writing the songs in both Book of Mormon and Frozen. He is the youngest person to ever receive an EGOT and is the only person to achieve an EGOT twice.
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Submitted September 27, 2019 at 01:37PM by desfiles
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TIL that although you can't buy alcohol in the United States until you're 21, you can legally run for governor of California, Massachusetts , Ohio, Rhode Island, Washington and Wisconsin when you're 18.
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Submitted September 27, 2019 at 03:59PM by PikesPique
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TIL: More than half a million people in central China are believed to have become infected with HIV from selling their blood to local government-run blood banks in the mid and late 1990s.
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Submitted September 27, 2019 at 04:49PM by captmomo
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TIL that the Chinese equivalent of "when pigs fly" is "when the sun rises in the West." Other variants include "when the crayfish whistles" (Russian), "when the crow turns white" (Tagalog), "when the fish climbs the poplar" (Turkish), and "when it snows red snowflakes" (Hungarian).
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Submitted September 27, 2019 at 06:39PM by emilylikesredditalot
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TIL for every $1 spent on NASA sees $7 to $14 added to the economy, meaning that the $17.6 billion a year invested in NASA results in an economic boost worth as much as $246.4 billion annually.
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Submitted September 27, 2019 at 07:40PM by haddock420
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TIL when two soldiers in the Canadian Airborne beat a Somalian teenager to death, and then their superiors attempted to cover it up, the Canadian government disbanded the entire Canadian Airborne
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Submitted September 27, 2019 at 08:05PM by Reacher-Said-Nothing
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