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TIL in the US in the late 19th Century it was briefly fashionable for people to form "13 Clubs" where they would dine in groups of 13, walk under ladders, spill salt at the table, etc. to demonstrate their lack of superstition. Several future US Presidents participated.
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Submitted April 14, 2020 at 09:21PM by should-stop-posting
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TIL that in 2013, NASA’s Mars Curiosity rover hummed Happy Birthday to itself by vibrating its sample-analysis unit to obtain the musical tune, but did so only on its first “birthday”.
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Submitted April 14, 2020 at 08:39PM by sykate
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TIL there is a ship which can turn 90 degrees vertically, leaving most of it underwater, transforming itself into an underwater lab
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Submitted April 14, 2020 at 11:38PM by Enzo0721
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TIL President Lyndon B. Johnson had no name for the first three months of his life. He was simply called "the baby" because his parents could not agree on a name, but one morning his mother refused to make breakfast until a name was agreed on. He was then named Lyndon Baines Johnson after a lawyer.
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Submitted April 14, 2020 at 11:37PM by KEYBOARDSMASHERJ
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TIL Ice Cream Sundae's were first created in the late 1800's to bypass "blue" laws outlawing ice cream soda's on Sunday, and instead served ice cream with the syrup of your choice without the soda, thereby complying with the law
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Submitted April 15, 2020 at 12:22AM by AlohaPizzaGuy
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TIL that despite the PS1 outselling the N64 3-to-1, every top selling game from 1996-2000 was an N64 exclusive game.
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Submitted April 15, 2020 at 03:07AM by Go_Away_Masturbating
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TIL that in Italy the installation of a bidet in a bathroom has been mandatory since 1975
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Submitted April 15, 2020 at 03:27AM by Arminio90
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TIL in 1800s, freed African-American slaves were helped to migrate to Liberia to escape oppression into a country of their very own, where they immediately established an apartheid upon their native African cousins, treating them the same way they were treated by their white oppressors.
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Submitted April 15, 2020 at 04:42AM by geburashka
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TIL The BBC were infamous for "wiping" tapes of their shows (fans of Doctor Who know this story very well). But it's even worse then you'd expect. It's estimated 60 to 70 percent of all BBC programming produced between the mid-1950s and mid-1970s was deleted.
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Submitted April 15, 2020 at 05:47AM by 90skid91
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TIL that there's a town in the Dominican republic which for some time has had a regular population of children who appear female throughout childhood, but develop male organs during puberty. They call these boys "guevedoces" which is slang for "eggs (testes) at twelve".
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Submitted April 15, 2020 at 12:51PM by nosecornflakes
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TIL that decades after reunification, the former border between East and West Berlin is still visible from space at night due to differences between the streetlamps used by the two sides
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Submitted April 15, 2020 at 02:56PM by zenits
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TIL Between 2006 and 2007 Poland’s prime minister and president were identical twin brothers, making them the first brothers in history to hold a country’s prime ministership and presidency at the same time.
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Submitted April 15, 2020 at 01:50PM by ComradeMerkel
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TIL one of Edgar Allan Poe’s rivals wrote a scathing obituary about him in order to posthumously destroy him. However, his attempt failed and sales from Poe’s works skyrocketed.
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Submitted April 15, 2020 at 03:59PM by tmarsee530
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TIL when Alexander was a boy, his tutor chastised him for burning too much incense at Gods' altars. After conquering Gaza, a major frankincense producer then, Alexander sent 500 talents of frankincense back to the old man in Macedonia, with the message: "Now you can stop short-changing the gods."
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Submitted April 15, 2020 at 05:47PM by Saalieri
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TIL 8-yr-old Saga Vanecek found a 1,500-yr-old sword when wading in a lake in Sweden. She pointed it up to the sky and called out, “Daddy, I’ve found a sword!” She was bummed when her dad made her give the sword to the local museum and said she was raising money to make a sword replica for herself.
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Submitted April 15, 2020 at 06:10PM by Miskatonica
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TIL: The BBC almost didn't air the first report from the Belsen concentration camp as they couldn't believe its content. They only relented when journalist Richard Dimbleby threatened to resign if they didn't.
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Submitted April 15, 2020 at 06:37PM by FuzzyDunlop1812
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TIL The Porn Industry Requested a "Stimulus Package" During The Great Recession Due To A "Soft Economy" Describing Itself As "...an industry the nation could not live without”
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Submitted April 15, 2020 at 04:49PM by Battle4Seattle
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