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TIL after the Reagan assassination attempt, the top aides didn’t have the briefcase containing the codes for launching nuclear missiles, the Veep was unavailable, & no-one knew what to do. A Soviet sub then moved closer than usual to the US.
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Submitted November 07, 2020 at 08:21PM by GasdaRoceries
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TIL what the West knows of Aristotle comes largely from Latin translations by Roman Catholic monks of Spanish Jewish recitations of Arabic Muslim texts translated from Syriac using surviving fragments of Koine Greek documents that quoted him second-hand from Attic Greek sources.
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Submitted November 07, 2020 at 05:40PM by iLutheran
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TIL: In 1877, George Cowan got shot in the head, crawled to make coffee at an old camp, crawled thru Yellowstone, crossed a river, got burned in a forest fire, had surgery to remove bullets, got thrown from a carriage before it rolled over a cliff, and while receiving care afterwards, his bed broke
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Submitted November 07, 2020 at 10:16PM by TheClicheMovieTrope
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TIL that Shaquille O'Neal only made one 3-pointer in his entire career.
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Submitted November 07, 2020 at 11:03PM by IllicitBehavior
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TIL Horseshoe crabs have existed for around 450 million years, and soil itself first appeared on earth 450 million years ago, meaning that horseshoe crabs are literally as old as dirt.
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Submitted November 08, 2020 at 12:46AM by erikcorno
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TIL that Charles Curtis, Vice President to Herbert Hoover, was of Native American ancestry and grew up partly among the Kaw tribe
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Submitted November 08, 2020 at 02:02AM by LockedOutOfElfland
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TIL When Michael J Fox gave testimony to the Senate Appropriations Subcommittee in 1999 about his Parkinson's, he deliberately went without medication beforehand to show the effects of the disorder.
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Submitted November 08, 2020 at 05:23AM by haddock420
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TIL that the Queen of Englands reign has seen 12 American presidents in office and she’s met all of them, except for one.
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Submitted November 08, 2020 at 04:55AM by NorthPosts
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TIL in 1917 Malaria was used as a treatment for Syphilis. It would burn the syphilis out of the system and was known as "Pyrotherapy." While the patient then had Malaria, this was a far less lethal disease than syphilis and was considered less painful to die from.
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Submitted November 08, 2020 at 04:22AM by TheOtherOtherKind
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TIL Trading onion options is illegal. In the 1950’s two traders in Chicago cornered the market by crashing the price of a 50lb bag of onions to lower than the cost of the bag that carried them, leading to a shortage of onions in the U.S.
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Submitted November 08, 2020 at 06:07AM by BMMmusicisbest
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TIL when Holocaust survivor Roma Ligocka first watched Schindler's List, she recognized herself as the Girl in the Red Coat. Ligocka wore the bright red coat when she was a child in the Kraków Ghetto
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Submitted November 08, 2020 at 07:11AM by ToxicBanana69
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TIL that when the US faced civil war, Russia was the most supportive nation to the Union, sending its Pacific and Atlantic fleets to US ports, as well as many Russian officers to volunteer, serving up to the rank of Brigadier General.
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Submitted November 08, 2020 at 08:14AM by nebuchadrezzar
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TIL of Hans Münch, a doctor known as The Good Man of Auschwitz because he refused to assist in the atrocities. His experiments were elaborate farces intended to protect inmates. He was the only person acquitted of crimes at the 1947 Auschwitz trials after many inmates testified in his favour.
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Submitted November 08, 2020 at 02:08PM by Russian_Bagel
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TIL in Paris, 2016, the only daughter of King Saud ordered her bodygaurds to take a handyman hostage for a minor precieved slight. They beat him, and forced him to kiss her feet. She recieved a 10,000€ fine.
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Submitted November 08, 2020 at 04:27PM by DalaiMontana
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TIL Garden Veggie Straws, which shows fresh vegetables on the bag, and are promoted as a healthy alternative to chips, are actually made of salt, starch, and tomato paste. They have less nutrition than actual potato chips and the manufacturer, which has a history of false claims, is now being sued.
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Submitted November 08, 2020 at 05:41PM by PayMouSe
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TIL Women's Rights aren't Constitutionally protected in America. The amendment was proposed almost 100 years ago and took about 50 years to be passed by Congress. It has been almost 50 since then and the amendment still hasn't been ratified by enough states to pass.
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Submitted November 08, 2020 at 07:20PM by M0RALVigilance
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