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TIL that the term “Green Thumb” comes from the fact that algae growing on the outside of earthenware pots will stain a person's thumb (and fingers) if he or she handles enough pots. Hence, a person who is always working with flowerpots has a green thumb
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Submitted July 26, 2020 at 10:03PM by poison_ivey
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TIL about Sibylla, Queen of Jerusalem, who agreed to annul her marriage to Guy de Lusignan to appease the High Court, on the condition that she have free rein to choose her next husband after her coronation. Upon being crowned queen, Sibylla immediately announced that she chose Guy as her husband.
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Submitted July 27, 2020 at 03:22AM by WouldbeWanderer
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TIL of Jack Parsons, an American rocket scientist and occultist follower of Aleister Crowley. He was defrauded of his life savings by his friend L. Ron Hubbard, worked for Howard Hughes, homebrewed his own absinthe, and died in a lab explosion a colleague claims while trying to create a homunculus.
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Submitted July 27, 2020 at 03:15AM by Theobromas
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TIL about Rolling Jubilee a project that buys debt for pennies on the dollar, but instead of collecting it, abolishes it.
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Submitted July 27, 2020 at 05:18AM by ansamech
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TIL that aluminum was once so valuable that Napoleon III served dinner to his most honored guests on aluminum plates, while the less distinguished were served on gold and silver plates.
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Submitted July 27, 2020 at 04:22AM by SubliminalSX
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TIL the 2002 D.C. sniper shootings were part of a plan by John Allen Muhammad to kill his ex wife. By the time he was caught, he had killed 17 random people, so she’d look like just one more random victim
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Submitted July 27, 2020 at 07:19AM by Mexicanuck
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TIL about war pigs against the siege of Megara in 266BC. Pigs were set on fire with resin, and sent towards the army's war elephants. The squealing pigs terrorized the elephants, causing them panic and trample anyone close by, ending the siege due to the high number of elephant-caused casualties.
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Submitted July 27, 2020 at 01:50PM by Lucasmh
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TIL Whoopi Goldberg is one of sixteen people who have EGOT status. This means she's won Academy, Emmy, Grammy, and Tony Awards.
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Submitted July 27, 2020 at 06:49AM by Minifig81
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TIL about Sigurd the Mighty, who after defeating his nemesis Mael Brigte, then tied the leader's head to his saddle as a trophy. The severed head bounced around and the teeth scratched Sigurd's leg. The leg became infected and as a result Sigurd died - Sigurd was defeated by a decapitated head.
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Submitted July 27, 2020 at 04:49PM by mysteryconfidential
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TIL that the world's longest domestic flight (and the world's longest flight by distance) is a 15728 km flight between Paris and the city of Papeete in the Pacific territory of French Polynesia, which takes between 16-17 hours
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Submitted July 27, 2020 at 11:28AM by benjaneson
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TIL about the Lead-crime Hypothesis: Researchers have found that the elimination of leaded gasoline in the US accounted for up to a 56% drop in violent crime rates between 1992 and 2002.
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Submitted July 27, 2020 at 05:24PM by Quizzin
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TIL There are twice as many bathrooms as necessary as the Pentagon because planners had to design the it for black and white employees, including “white” and “colored” cafeterias. However, Pres. Roosevelt made Jim Crow laws illegal on Federal property prior to its opening and was never enforced.
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Submitted July 27, 2020 at 06:30PM by LePouletPourpre
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TIL that shipwreck hunter Tommy G. Thompson is imprisoned and fined 1,000$ per day for not revealing where he hides the gold he found and had promised to split with investors
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Submitted July 27, 2020 at 07:11PM by ilesdelamadmeme
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TIL that Pablo Escobar called off a hit on a man who had fatally shot a member of the Medellin Cartel when he found out that the shooter, Gianni Russo, had starred in The Godfather.
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Submitted July 27, 2020 at 07:46PM by smallpoint1
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TIL that Sarah Hyland, of Modern Family fame, was diagnosed with kidney dysplasia when she was young, received two kidney transplants from her father and her brother and has undergone 16 surgeries, even during the shooting of Modern Family
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Submitted July 27, 2020 at 08:31PM by Azathoth90
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TIL Apple pie is not American. Pie was invented in Medieval England, while the modern recipe for apple pie with a lattice crust was created and perfected by the Dutch.
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Submitted July 27, 2020 at 09:23PM by lifemoments
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TIL in The Land Before Time, the dinosaur Rooter consoles Littlefoot after his mother dies. This scene was added at the advice of psychologists to soften the blow, showing that death is something that Littlefoot, and the audience, have to deal with.
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Submitted July 27, 2020 at 11:13PM by WithGravy
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TIL sharks kill 6-12 people a year. People kill an estimated 12,000 sharks an hour.
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Submitted July 27, 2020 at 11:37PM by elciclon87
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TIL only 5 to 12 percent of the people alive today have been on a plane. The majority of air travel is undertaken by a mere 2 percent of the world’s population.
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Submitted July 28, 2020 at 01:04AM by bl-nkfr-nk
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