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TIL: Marge Simpson's hairstyle was originally designed to hide rabbit ears for an eventual reveal that she was secretly a rabbit from Matt Groening's comic strip "Life in Hell."
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Submitted August 02, 2020 at 02:30AM by Communist_Pants
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TIL During The Great Depression, crop prices dropped so much some farm families burnt corn instead of coal in their stoves because corn was cheaper. Sometimes the countryside smelled like popcorn from all the corn burning in the kitchen stoves.
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Submitted August 02, 2020 at 03:24AM by X_kwiz-it
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TIL Mr Clean Magic Erasers are the same material people use for insulating and soundproofing. It's also easy to buy and cheap, you can by 100 Magic Eraser equivalent for $5.53.
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Submitted August 02, 2020 at 05:25AM by shaka_sulu
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TIL a person traded his way from a red paperclip to a house in fourteen transactions.
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Submitted August 02, 2020 at 06:12AM by SangriterBlast
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TIL about Nikolai Vavilov who, obsessed with ending famine, created the world's largest collection of plant seeds, advancing the genetic study of cultivated plants. He faced anti-Mendelian forces during the Stalin era, leading to arrest in 1940. Ironically, he died in captivity, by starvation.
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Submitted August 02, 2020 at 08:50AM by activatedgeek
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TIL November 2, 2000 was the last time all humans were on Earth together. Ever since then, at least one person has remained on the International Space Station.
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Submitted August 02, 2020 at 09:45AM by RainyDayBreeze
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TIL that the lead singer of the California punk band The Offspring (Self Esteem, Come Out and Play, etc.) has a Ph.D in Molecular Biology and that his dissertation focused on HIV/AIDS research.
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Submitted August 02, 2020 at 01:12PM by buck70
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TIL about the arrest of 16 y/o Daniel LaPlante, who, after a bad date, dug a burrow into the crawl space of the girl’s home & terrorized her for months as a spirit of her late mother then discovered dressed as a bride wielding a hatchet by her dad.
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Submitted August 02, 2020 at 10:36AM by thundies
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TIL The Offspring's Album 'Smash' had a small budget of $20,000, which limited studio time, the last four songs recorded for the album were worked through in just two nights. 'Smash' went on to be the best-selling album released by an independent record label with over 11 million sales.
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Submitted August 02, 2020 at 04:21PM by jamescookenotthatone
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TIL that many Union veterans saw it as insulting that Confederate monuments were being built to commemorate the very traitors they fought against. They saw it as an affront to their military service and an affront to their dead colleagues who died fighting the Confederacy.
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Submitted August 02, 2020 at 05:19PM by Goatsie12
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TIL Quantum Immortality is a thought experiment according to which self conscious beings cannot experience death. According to the experiment, the self conscious being’s mind would just switch to another reality in which its death did not occur.
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Submitted August 02, 2020 at 02:37PM by geonosian_memes
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TIL that “TurboTax Free” is not actually free, but “TurboTax Free File” actually IS free (if you make under 36k). This was done to purposefully mislead the public into paying for a service that should be free according to the IRS.
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Submitted August 02, 2020 at 06:53PM by OrangElm
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TIL the last person who spoke exclusively Irish, Seán Ó hEinirí, died only 22 years ago in 1998
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Submitted August 02, 2020 at 04:55PM by MrEmcee07
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TIL that the Amboseli National Park in Kenya is experiencing an Elephant baby boom
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Submitted August 02, 2020 at 05:50PM by whineybubbles
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TIL of a young SS soldier forced to play a piano for his Russian captors. They made it clear in sign language that he would be executed the moment he stopped. The man played for 22 hours, after which he collapsed in tears. The Russians congratulated him and then shot him.
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Submitted August 02, 2020 at 07:33PM by peperok
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TIL that Dr. Strangelove was originally conceived as a drama about the nature of nuclear warfare, but as Kubrick was writing the screenplay, he felt many of the accurate depictions of nuclear warfare policy were too unbelievable for audiences to take seriously, and so it was turned into a comedy.
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Submitted August 02, 2020 at 06:25PM by artificiallyselected
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TIL that the world's highest mountain Mt. Everest is littered with frozen corpses because it's too dangerous and expensive to get them down. One such corpse named "Green Boots", has long been used as a landmark to help climbers travel up the mountain
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Submitted August 02, 2020 at 08:48PM by RoronoaZoro95
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TIL Supreme stole their famous box logo from another artist named Barbara Kruger. When Supreme sued another company for copyright infringement of their box logo, Kruger was asked for comment by a Complex editor. Her comment was “What a ridiculous clusterfuck of totally uncool jokers”.
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Submitted August 02, 2020 at 11:18PM by Malikalikimakkah
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