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TIL Larry David made a “no hugging, no learning” rule for the 1990's hit sitcom Seinfeld noscripts. He didn't want the characters to have sentimental revelations. It was a show about four friends, none with particularly active goals, bantering in between moments of recognizable awkwardness.
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Submitted May 28, 2020 at 08:13PM by PhotoClock
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TIL During the 1960s the US government sprayed chemical weapons throughout poor neighborhoods of St. Louis without the residents knowledge as part of a chemical weapons test.
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Submitted May 28, 2020 at 05:23PM by 123123123423
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TIL Schopenhauer called the post-orgasm feeling “devil's laughter" because it is the realization that we are all slaves to the Will of Life, as it takes precedence over our own happiness.
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Submitted May 28, 2020 at 10:16PM by esotericspeech
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TIL of Charles Ramsey, a Cleveland man who was key in the rescue of 3 women & a child from over a decade of captivity in a neighbor's home. When word got out he was eating a Big Mac when he heard a woman's cries for help, over a dozen Ohio restaurants pledged to offer him a free burger anytime.
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Submitted May 28, 2020 at 10:52PM by Miskatonica
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TIL that Mike Tyson knocked out another kid for ripping the head off of a pigeon. Tyson had grown up with nothing & found that feeding and spending time with them was an honour & got him away from all the bullying he had endured. To this day he still loves & has his own collection of racing pigeons.
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Submitted May 29, 2020 at 12:45AM by tonyontheinternet
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TIL the standard airline practice of pre-boarding (i.e., allowing passengers with small children and those who need extra assistance to board first) actually improves boarding efficiency by 28% and decreases time to takeoff.
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Submitted May 28, 2020 at 07:51PM by OvxvO
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TIL that after Ukraine banned the display of communist symbols in 2015, the city of Odessa turned a statue of Lenin into a monument to Darth Vader
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Submitted May 29, 2020 at 01:18AM by Rob-With-One-B
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TIL there is a McDonald's in LA that serves no food. It is strictly for filming when the set needs to be McDonald's.
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Submitted May 29, 2020 at 03:40AM by doctorfishie
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TIL that when a girl from India lost both her arms, she received big, dark and hairy arm transplants from a man. However after a few years, her new arms became more slender and also changed colour to match her skin tone.
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Submitted May 29, 2020 at 04:05AM by dontovercommit
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TIL that the Transformers character Wheelie, who speaks entirely in rhyme, has a Transformers Wiki page that is 10,000 words long and is written ENTIRELY IN RHYME.
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Submitted May 29, 2020 at 05:45AM by black6211
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TIL Producer Deborah Forte of Scholastic Entertainment says they were inspired to create the Magic School Bus TV show after learning that many girls and minorities were opting out of science at young ages.
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Submitted May 29, 2020 at 01:44AM by PhotoClock
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TIL Only five Olympians have ever won more than eight gold medals. Four of them have nine golds each. Michael Phelps is the fifth, with an unbelievable 23.
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Submitted May 29, 2020 at 04:06AM by localfrenchman
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TIL that Gene Wilder got into comedy and acting because of his mother's heart condition. His mother's doctor told him to 'Try to make her laugh,' to make her feel better, leading to his conscious efforts to make other people laugh.
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Submitted May 29, 2020 at 10:39AM by JaguarPF
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TIL that Dr. Bronner, of the "all-one" Dr. Bronner's Magic Soaps, fled to the United States in 1929 and urged his parents to come with him. The last he heard from them was "You were right," before they were killed in the Holocaust.
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Submitted May 29, 2020 at 05:01PM by gnulynnux
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TIL that aside from the destruction of the tea and a padlock, no property was damaged or looted during the 1773 Boston Tea Party protest. The participants reportedly swept before they left.
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Submitted May 29, 2020 at 05:27PM by EricPro21
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TIL that mathematicians have proved a majority-rule democracy can be forced to vote in favor of any set of policies by constructing a series of intermediate policy sets, each of which a majority of voters will prefer to the preceding policy set.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/McKelvey–Schofield_chaos_theorem

Submitted May 29, 2020 at 06:04PM by AbouBenAdhem
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