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TIL that prior to making Finding Nemo, Pixar's in-house art team was required to take Marine Biology, Oceanography, Ichthyology, and Scuba Diving Classes in order to get the look & feel of the characters and their world just right.
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Submitted November 23, 2020 at 06:04PM by rambunctiousrhino
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TIL of John Mosbys Sack, a lost treasure buried in rural Virgina. In 1863 Confederate Colonel Mosby and his men snuck into the Fairfax VA county courthouse and got away with $350,000 in gold silver jewelry and heirlooms. He buried the sack between 2 large trees after the raid where it remains hidden
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Submitted November 23, 2020 at 04:25PM by Radiocureee
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TIL of Inês de Castro, the posthumous Queen of Portugal. She secretly married Crown Prince Peter, but was beheaded on the orders of King Alfonso IV. After Peter became King, he had her exhumed and posthumously crowned Queen of Portugal and made the courtiers kiss the hand of the dead Inês
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Submitted November 23, 2020 at 03:07PM by xXgaypornloverXx
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TIL after high school senior Allison Closs dressed up a cardboard cutout of Danny DeVito to go with her to prom, DeVito returned the favor by bringing a cardboard cutout of Closs to the set of It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia.
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Submitted November 23, 2020 at 08:51PM by holyfruits
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TIL in 19th-Century America, popcorn was eaten with milk and sweetener as a breakfast cereal.
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Submitted November 23, 2020 at 08:15PM by WaterlooAndCity
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TIL as a kid, Ice-T had his bike stolen. He told his father about it; he simply shrugged and said: "Well, then, you ain't got no bike." Ice-T then stole parts from various bicycles and assembled "three or four weird-looking, brightly-painted bikes" from the parts. His father never even noticed.
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Submitted November 23, 2020 at 09:05PM by Elementaryfan
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TIL about Henry Dunant, a man who was so appalled and disgusted by the injury and death during the battle of Solferino, Dunant was compelled to create a neutral voluntary aid society that would tend to the wounded of both sides of every battle. This organisation later became known as the Red Cross.
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Submitted November 23, 2020 at 10:21PM by billydevil666
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TIL Ajay V. Bhatt, an Indian-born American computer architect who led the Intel team that invented the USB (Universal Serial Bus), regrets not making it reversible. It would have doubled the cost, which was a hard sell at the time, "[b]ut in hindsight, we blew it." He holds 132 patents and counting.
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Submitted November 23, 2020 at 09:59PM by wjbc
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TIL Joaquin Phoenix grew up in a cult involved with pedophilia and his parents traveled to Venezuela to recruit followers (not knowing about the pedophilia) - The Children of God
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Submitted November 24, 2020 at 02:02AM by kuza2g
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TIL Koreans all change age on the 1st of January. They still celebrate their birthday, but if someone asks you "how old are you" you are expected to answer as if you were born on January 1st. This also applies to legal majority.
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Submitted November 24, 2020 at 02:48AM by giorgiocav123
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TIL the Library of Congress estimates 75% of all silent films are lost forever. The largest cause of silent film loss was intentional destruction, as before the era of television, films were viewed as having little future value when theatrical runs ended.
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Submitted November 24, 2020 at 02:09AM by SayNoToSystemUpdates
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TIL that Apollo 15 astronauts secretly snuck a small statue on their mission to leave on the moon as a memorial to commemorate astronauts & cosmonauts who died in the advancement of space exploration. The crew kept the memorial's existence a secret until after completion of their mission.
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Submitted November 24, 2020 at 02:51AM by garamond89
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TIL that Suzanne Somers was fired from 'Three’s Company' for asking for equal pay with her male co-star, John Ritter, who was earning five times her salary.
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Submitted November 24, 2020 at 04:49AM by MasterBlogroll
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TIL on November 22, 1963, an unidentified woman placed a phone call to a news station, telling them John F Kennedy was about to be killed. The call was placed about 20 minutes before his assassination, from the vicinity of Oxnard, California, about fifty miles northwest of Los Angeles.
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Submitted November 24, 2020 at 03:52AM by zeoplex
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TIL that the inventor of Velcro took 20 years to take his idea from concept to production and even then the apparel industry wasn't sold on it. It wasn't until NASA came along asking about it for use in space that the fashion industry then went wild due to it now being space aged.
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Submitted November 24, 2020 at 08:19AM by EventHorizonSurfer
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TIL in 2013 nine episodes of Doctor Who that had been considered lost for years were found at a TV station in Nigeria, including "The Web of Fear," in which Patrick Troughton's Doctor fights a robot yeti in the London Underground.
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Submitted November 24, 2020 at 11:53AM by SayNoToSystemUpdates
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TIL that the British actually sent a spy named James Bond to Warsaw, Poland in 1964, where he worked at the Embassy. He was notable for his charisma and fondness of women.
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Submitted November 24, 2020 at 02:40PM by Pendrakhon
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