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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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TIL Pakistan's name is actually an acronym: (P)unjabi, (A)fghani, (K)ashmiri, (S)indhi, and Balochis(TAN), with an extra ‘I’ to make it easier to pronounce
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Submitted September 27, 2019 at 06:47PM by johnnylgarfield
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TIL President LBJ thought Nixon's back-channel communications to S.Vietnam government were treasonous (Nixon secretly told the S.Vietnamese to stop the Vietnam War peace talks with President LBJ, and wait until Nixon gets elected to get a "better deal".)
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Submitted September 27, 2019 at 10:44PM by jimmythefrenchfry
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TIL about John Gurdon, who was ranked last out of 250 boys in his year group in Biology and in a progress report, his teacher said that pursuing Biology for him would be a "waste of time, for him and those who have to teach him". In 2012, John Gurdon won the Nobel Prize for Physiology and Medicine
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Submitted September 28, 2019 at 12:09AM by Citeen
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TIL that elevators are held up by 6-8 tension cables, and each individual cable can hold the full load of the elevator by itself.
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Submitted September 27, 2019 at 11:04PM by rex0810
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TIL cilantro and coriander are from the same plant. Cilantro refers to the leaves and coriander comes from the dried seeds of the plant
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Submitted September 27, 2019 at 09:48PM by muhsheh
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TIL in 1969 most public swimming pools were still segregated. Mr Rogers invited a black police office on his show to cool their feet together in a plastic swimming pool. By doing so, the 2 gentlemen broke a major color barrier.
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Submitted September 28, 2019 at 04:01AM by skinscrazy2002
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TIL: Dwayne Johnson "aka: The Rock" began his acting and wrestling career after being cut from the Calgary Stampeders of the Canadian Football League. He would later say "Sometimes, your biggest dreams that don’t come true are the best things that never happened."
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Submitted September 28, 2019 at 06:08AM by SkippyMGee
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TIL Charlie Soong sent his three daughters to study in America because China was unsafe. One daughter married China's richest man, the other married China's first president and became Honorary President herself. The youngest was also China's First Lady but later moved to Taiwan and lived to 106
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Submitted September 28, 2019 at 09:21AM by vannybros
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TIL David Bowie briefly considered becoming a Buddhist monk. After a few months' study at Tibet House in London, he was told by a Lama, "You don't want to be Buddhist. ... You should follow music."
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Submitted September 28, 2019 at 03:20PM by dorkmax
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TIL after his arrest, Serial Killer Rodney Alcala was discovered to have over a thousand photographs of various women and boys in his possession. In 2016, Alcala was charged with a 1977 murder after a dead woman was identified from one of the photos. Police are looking for help to ID more subjects.
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Submitted September 28, 2019 at 03:15PM by Tokyono
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TIL that USA once detonated atomic bombs and placed a bunch of beer near them. They concluded that, in the event of a atomic blast, beer is mostly safe to drink.
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Submitted September 28, 2019 at 03:47PM by Amolk2207
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