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TIL - Nicolas Cage's copy of Action Comics #1, featuring the first appearance of Superman and worth $2 million, was stolen from his house and found in an abandoned storage locker 11 years later.
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Submitted April 16, 2020 at 02:57AM by altacan
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TIL: That the children of Princess Anne, the daughter of Queen Elizabeth II, carry no Royal Titles. They are still in the Royal line of succession but have no peerage noscripts because thier father was common born and refused a noscript upon marriage into the Royal Family.
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Submitted April 16, 2020 at 02:08AM by alsatian01
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TIL Natalie Portman had multiple sex scenes with Ashton Kutcher and one with Mila Kunis ( Kutcher's now wife) in separate movies in the same year.
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Submitted April 16, 2020 at 12:48AM by CarrotVision
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TIL It is believed that Van Gogh only sold one painting in his lifetime. The remainder were sold and became famous after his death.
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Submitted April 16, 2020 at 04:58AM by MD_Recruiter
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TIL about the Kearny fallout meter, designed such that someone with a normal mechanical ability would be able to construct it before or during a nuclear attack, using common household items
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Submitted April 16, 2020 at 04:11AM by nickname_this
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TIL birds such as the Albatross and the Frigatebird, known to fly over the open ocean for weeks on end, can sleep while flying
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Submitted April 16, 2020 at 07:02AM by whicketywack
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TIL In China you can hire a misstress-hunter, who will befriend the misstress by social engineering and convince her to end the relationship. Most of the time they are hired by the woman of the cheating husband, in order not to "lose face".
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Submitted April 16, 2020 at 12:05PM by ZhongTr0n
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TIL Austrian composer Arnold Schoenberg suffered from a severe fear of the number 13. He predicted correctly that he would die when he was 76, because 7+6=13. He did die on July 13th, 13 minutes before midnight
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Submitted April 16, 2020 at 07:13AM by Nalopean_Bonatarpe
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TIL Anne Frank hid some dirty jokes in her diary. One of them reads: "Do you know why the German Wehrmacht girls are in the Netherlands? As mattresses for the soldiers."
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Submitted April 16, 2020 at 01:47PM by Dark_Tsar_Chasm
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TIL Eminem, Britney Spears, Sesame Street, and Barney's music among others were used by the CIA to help psychologically torture prisoners
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Submitted April 16, 2020 at 04:25PM by joesoldlegs
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TIL Canadian air traffic controllers ordered pizza delivery in a show of solidarity for at least 35 US air traffic control units working without pay during the 2018–2019 US government shutdown.
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Submitted April 16, 2020 at 05:03PM by Miskatonica
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TIL all Dodge Chargers that played Dom's car in The Fast and the Furious were automatic, so the gear shifting scenes were actually fake.
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Submitted April 16, 2020 at 02:45PM by YourOwnBiggestFan
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TIL William Shakespeare purposely had a curse epitaph engraved on his burial tomb to ward off would-be grave robbers, Shakespeare's remains have yet to be disturbed.
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Submitted April 16, 2020 at 05:33PM by PhotoClock
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TIL of the unofficial Russian book The Last Ringbearer which describes The Lord of the Rings trilogy from Sauron's point of view and portrays Mordor as the good guys
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Submitted April 16, 2020 at 08:09PM by Skylacine
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TIL that the infamous RMS Titanic had a near-identical sister ship called Olympic, nicknamed "Old Reliable", that was re-commissioned in WWI as a troop transport ship and was notable for having carried over 200,000 troops during the war and sinking a German u-boat by ramming into it head-on
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Submitted April 16, 2020 at 06:23PM by SpartanNitro1
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TIL of Trish Vickers, a blind author who wrote 26 pages of her first novel without realising her pen had run out of ink. The local police force used their forensic lab to find the missing words, and the book was published on the day of her death.
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Submitted April 16, 2020 at 10:47PM by Fitz_cuniculus
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TIL in the movie The Princess Bride, when Count Rugen knocks Westly played by Cary Elwes on the head the tap came a little too hard and Elwes was knocked legitimately unconscious; he later awoke in the hospital. It's that take, with Elwes actually passing out, that appears in the film.
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Submitted April 16, 2020 at 10:27PM by Yobfesh
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TIL Alcohol's measurement is coined "proof" because, during the 1500s, England would increase taxes on drinks containing a higher percentage of alcohol. They would measure this is by soaking gunpowder in the alcohol and trying to ignite it. If it ignited, this was "proof" that it had a high content.
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Submitted April 16, 2020 at 11:39PM by Nak125
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TIL in the movie Full Metal Jacket, the actor that played Gunnery Sergeant Hartman (R. Lee Ermey) came up with 150 pages of insults on his own. Also the actor that originally was playing the role couldn't yell more than 30 minutes, but when Ermey stepped in and took over, his energy never let up.
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Submitted April 17, 2020 at 02:46AM by Yobfesh
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TIL in 2016 a man named Joshua won an entire resort located on the Micronesian island of Kosrae in a raffle he paid $65 to enter. When he won it, the resort was free of debt, profitable and had more than 20 years remaining on its lease.
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Submitted April 17, 2020 at 02:46AM by SwaftBelic
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