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TIL that honeybees let out a ‘whoop’ when they bump into each other. This vibrational pulse, long thought to be a signal to other bees to stop what they are doing, might actually be an expression of surprise
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Submitted April 25, 2021 at 12:29PM by NevaKenyon
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TIL in WWII, the Japanese ambassador to Nazi Germany became one of the Western Allies greatest and highest-level sources in Berlin, offering up information on the invasion of the Soviet Union, German defenses at the Atlantic Wall, and more...without ever knowing his cables had been decrypted
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Submitted April 25, 2021 at 10:34AM by Zharan_Colonel
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TIL, John D. Rockefeller was the world's first Billionaire and it was his near-monopoly oil business in the USA that necessitated the federal and states governments to create Antitrust laws.
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Submitted April 25, 2021 at 03:35PM by mastertutor1212
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TIL that Reba McEntire was offered the role of "The Unsinkable Molly Brown" in James Cameron's Titanic, but turned it down due to filming being delayed beyond the 3 months she set aside to film it and she was worried about the people on her payroll not being able to work.
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Submitted April 25, 2021 at 03:34PM by sundog925
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TIL that in 1978 Alice Cooper donated $27,000 to help restore the famous HOLLYWOOD sign. He sponsored an O in memory of his friend, Groucho Marx.
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Submitted April 25, 2021 at 05:47PM by effit_consultant
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TIL airplane tires leave between 1 to 1.5 pounds of rubber on the runway when they land.
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Submitted April 25, 2021 at 03:29PM by spuckett84
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TIL that in the 70s, Fort Lauderdale, Florida, tried creating its own artificial coral reef by dumping some 2 million used tires into the ocean. It became an environmental disaster, naturally, but also a military training exercise when divers had to retrieve the tires (almost one by one).
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Submitted April 25, 2021 at 06:07PM by helmsmanfresh
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TIL About 70% of the radioactive fallout from the Chernobyl disaster landed in Belarus, heavily contaminating one-fourth of the country, one-fifth of its agricultural land and affecting at least 7 million people.
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Submitted April 25, 2021 at 05:59PM by achilles-_-23
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TIL Marcia Lucas, George Lucas’ then wife, was the reason for major changes to the Original Star Wars film. Obi Wan’s death, Leia’s good Luck Kiss and re-editing the trench run to increase tension were all her ideas. She won the Academy Award for editing the film while George did not for directing.
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Submitted April 25, 2021 at 09:07PM by ShirlBruner
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TIL hundreds of thousands of people have, in fact, gotten away with murder. Based on UCR data, the US currently has 250,000 unsolved murders, a number that increases by about 6,000 each year. With a murder solve rate of about 62%, that means 38% of the time murderers walk away scot-free.
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Submitted April 25, 2021 at 10:31PM by Mister_Silk
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TIL that Chadwick Boseman wrote a play in 2005 called Deep Azure. It was written in lyrical verse and focused on a young black woman dealing with an eating disorder in the wake of her fiance's death. Boseman turned it into a screenplay in 2008, and wanted to eventually direct it.
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Submitted April 25, 2021 at 08:13PM by jesuisdeepak
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TIL that when A Bug's Life was released in 1998 the rhinoceros beetle Dim was not based on any known species. Eight years later a Peruvian rhinoceros beetle was discovered with a very similar horn. Such discoveries of "fictional" creatures later revealed to be real have been dubbed "the Dim Effect".
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Submitted April 25, 2021 at 10:49PM by Water_With_Lemon
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TIL of Dominomus, a female house sparrow that flew into a convention center in Netherlands and caused 23,000 of the dominos being prepared for “Domino Day 2005” to be knocked over. A hunting company hired to capture the bird failed, and finally just shot it, sparking an animal rights controversy.
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Submitted April 26, 2021 at 12:04AM by string_in_database
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TIL of Elouise Cobell (“Yellow Bird Woman”) who founded the first Native American owned bank. As treasurer of the Blackfeet Nation she tried to resolve accounting discrepancies regarding leases on Indian Land which led to a $3.4 Billion dollar class action settlement against the US government.
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Submitted April 26, 2021 at 04:12AM by intentsman
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TIL Mack Ray Edwards was a serial killer who worked for CalTrans. He’d kill his victims and then bury the bodies in places he would later help build highways over. Not all his victims have been found, and many are very likely still under some of the California highways.
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Submitted April 25, 2021 at 08:57PM by iajzz
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TIL On September 5, 1942, United States Navy Petty Officer First Class Charles Jackson French, of Omaha Nebraska, swam through the night for 6 - 8 hours pulling a raft of 15 wounded sailors with a rope around his stomach through shark-infested waters after the USS Gregory was hit
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Submitted April 26, 2021 at 04:45AM by BrazyKiccz
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TIL of Eugene Bullard. America’s First Black fighter pilot who without the wager of a $2,000 bet would have never flown at all. Remarkably, he fought for the French, was a boxer, stevedore, jazz drummer, club manager and finally an elevator operator in NYC.
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Submitted April 26, 2021 at 09:01AM by sundog925
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