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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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TIL: A study was conducted in an Australian University in 2008 found that "male science nerds" are most likely to be virgins and that female art majors were the most sexually active, but have little knowledge of what chlamydia is. The study was prompted by rapidly increasing cases of chlamydia.
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Submitted November 24, 2020 at 09:04AM by Kingflares
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TIL Astronauts use white space suits in space as white reflects the solar radiation. However, while heading to space or coming back, they wear an orange space suit so that, if there's a malfunction and astronauts have to abandon ship, they need to be easy to spot for rescue crews.
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Submitted November 24, 2020 at 03:03PM by BenTennyson2101
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TIL: Inspired by the "Hot Crazy Matrix", evolutionary psychologist Alyson Blanchard conducted studies on over 500 people and found that when men are confronted with women of similar physical attractiveness, they go for the one with borderline personality disorders or psychopathic traits.
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Submitted November 24, 2020 at 03:35PM by Kingflares
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TIL Nasa hasn't built any spacesuits since 1974. They've been reusing the same suits for 50 years, and currently only have 4 in operation.
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Submitted November 24, 2020 at 04:43PM by WaterDrinker911
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TIL Little Richard, while performing in Australia in 1957, saw a fireball flying across the sky and took it to be a sign from God to repent from secular music and his wild lifestyle at the time; he wouldn't return to secular music until 1962. The fireball that he saw was the launch of Sputnik 1.
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Submitted November 24, 2020 at 06:04PM by blueshiirt
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TIL pizza was invented in Naples, Italy. Since 2004, Italian law insists Neapolitan pizza must include wheat flour, flour yeast, mineral water, peeled tomatoes, mozzarella cheese, sea salt & olive oil to be considered pizza.
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Submitted November 24, 2020 at 07:42PM by MarineKingPrime_
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TIL After the Scarecrow gets his diploma in The Wizard of Oz, he recites the Pythagorean theorem incorrectly.
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Submitted November 24, 2020 at 07:04PM by chacham2
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TIL Why blueprints are blue. In the mid 1800's, a photo chemical process was developed that enabled copying documents. The blueprinting process deposits blue ferric ferrocyanide in areas that were blank in the original document. Thus, the copy consists of white lines on a blue background.
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Submitted November 24, 2020 at 10:28PM by Dr_Honeydont
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TIL that due to China's one child policies, it's estimated that 35% of their population will be over 65 by 2050, making it the fastest aging population in modern history.
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Submitted November 24, 2020 at 08:44PM by IanMazgelis
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TIL In 2015, Neil Moore, a prisoner serving time for a $2.7 million fraud conviction, walked out the front gate of a high security prison by forging his own release papers.
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Submitted November 24, 2020 at 10:56PM by Daxl
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TIL of the Helen, a unit of measurement based on Helen of Troy. She was known as "the face that launched a thousand ships", therefore 1 milliHelen is the amount of beauty needed to launch a single ship. The negative Helen is the power to beach ships.
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Submitted November 25, 2020 at 12:25AM by SettyDub
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TIL that in 1897, Indiana nearly passed a bill claiming Pi equals 3.2 exactly. The bill would have passed the Senate, but a Mathematics professor happened to be present that day.
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Submitted November 25, 2020 at 01:40AM by gnulynnux
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TIL The actor that portrayed Scruff McGruff the Crime Dog was arrested and sentenced to 16 years in prison for possesion of Marijuana and Grenade Launchers.
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Submitted November 25, 2020 at 02:03AM by BellaTrixter
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