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TIL Sriracha sauce was created in Sri Racha, Thailand by a woman named Madam La Orr Suwanprasop. After being blessed by a monk to do so, she began selling her famous sauce. The same monk suggested she name it after her hometown of Sri Racha.
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Submitted May 24, 2020 at 09:55AM by TwoStrokeMcGee
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TIL: 80’s Night Court had the tallest cast in sitcom history. Richard Moll was 6’8, John Laroquette 6’4, Harry Anderson 6’4, Charles Robinson 6’2, and Marsha Warfield 5’11.
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Submitted May 24, 2020 at 04:41PM by unique_mermaid
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TIL that pooping is really the only reason for a sloth to ever leave its tree, and it's the only time they have to stand upright. They only poop once a week, and can lose up to one-third of their body weight by pooping.
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Submitted May 24, 2020 at 05:02PM by IllicitBehavior
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TIL that Vladimir Lenin spoke English with an Irish accent. According to a Russian diplomat, "Lenin said that his tutor in English was an Irishman and that was why he was speaking with an Irish accent."
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Submitted May 24, 2020 at 02:30PM by JJOhBe
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TIL: Minesweeper's theme was so controversial in some countries that Microsoft was forced to replace the mines with flowers in some locations and rebrand it as "Flower Garden". Link
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Submitted May 24, 2020 at 07:36PM by megatechtv
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TIL: It is completely legal for women to be topless in Colorado, Wyoming, New Mexico, Oklahoma, Kansas and Utah.
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Submitted May 24, 2020 at 10:22PM by LadybirdTheCat
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TIL Chris Farley looked so bad during his final SNL appearance that the episode has never been shown again. He died less than two months later.
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Submitted May 24, 2020 at 07:55PM by ZoltanJones
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TIL of the sunkin library book burning memorial in Berlin, Germany. The library is built underground, is not accessible to the public, and can only be viewed through a glass plate that shows enough empty bookcases to hold 20,000 books, the amount burned in a book burning event on May 10, 1933.
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Submitted May 24, 2020 at 10:33PM by tenor1trpt
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TIL one of the reasons why Northern Cheyenne reservation traditionalists oppose coal mining on the reservation is that the 1700s Cheyenne mystic Sweet Medicine prophecized that mining the "black rock" would change the tribe forever.
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Submitted May 24, 2020 at 07:46PM by YourOwnBiggestFan
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TIL of the Native American silversmith Sequoyah, who, impressed by the writing of the European settlers, independently created the Cherokee syllabary. Finished in 1821, by 1825 thousands of Cherokee had already become literate.
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Submitted May 25, 2020 at 12:15AM by Histryx
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TIL in 2012, Dunkin’ Donuts launched an ad campaign in Seoul, Korea where scent spray devices installed on buses would release a fragrant coffee aroma when triggered by the sound of the DD radio jingle. The campaign reached more than 350,000 people, and sales near bus stops increased by 29%.
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Submitted May 25, 2020 at 01:02AM by OvxvO
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TIL Only five babies were born in the London subway station. One of them is talk show host, Jerry Springer.
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Submitted May 25, 2020 at 02:08AM by LiberalDomination
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TIL that in 1958 a black man named Clennon King applied to the University of Mississippi and was admitted to an asylum. The judge ruled that only insanity could make a black man think he could apply to the university
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Submitted May 25, 2020 at 04:53AM by Ohsbar
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TIL The Venus Flytrap is native only to a 60-mile radius around Wilmington, North Carolina and nowhere else
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Submitted May 25, 2020 at 05:17AM by Ghostaire
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TIL Pelorus Jack was a dolphin that used to guide ships through a notoriously dangerous channel in New Zealand. In 1904 someone aboard the SS Penguin tried to shoot Jack with a rifle, he survived and continued to guide all ships except the SS Penguin.
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Submitted May 25, 2020 at 08:14AM by HS007
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TIL Nike dropped Allyson Felix's 7 yr old sponsorship because she asked that she shouldn't be punished if her performance dropped due to childbirth. 10 months later she won a gold medal breaking Usain Bolt's world record for most gold medals in world championships history, with her daughter watching
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Submitted May 25, 2020 at 09:55AM by poleco1
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TIL that for 5000 years, Europeans built huge magnificent cities, and lived in them, just to burn them to the ground every 75 years. People in current-day Romania, Bulgaria, Ukraine and the area, intentionally set their settlements on fire between 7000-2000 BC, for reasons still being researched.
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Submitted May 25, 2020 at 08:53AM by kobyof
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TIL Despite publishing vast quantities of literature only three Mayan books exist today due to the Spanish ordering all Mayan books and libraries to be destroyed for being, "lies of the devil."
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Submitted May 25, 2020 at 01:24PM by 123123123423
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