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TIL in 2018, a middle school in Dallas organized an event called “Breakfast with Dads,” but saw that not all of the students have fathers or father figures to attend the event with. So, they put up a post on Facebook seeking around 50 volunteers. On the day of the event, 600 men showed up to help.
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Submitted May 01, 2021 at 02:31PM by EL-PLANTAIN
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TIL the Draugr is an undead creature from Scandinavian saga literature and folktale. Living in their graves or royal palaces, often guarding treasure buried with them; they have magical abilities resembling those of living witches and wizards, such as shape-shifting and controlling the weather.
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Submitted May 01, 2021 at 06:00PM by WouldbeWanderer
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TIL that bees love weed & can even fuse THC & CBD into their honey
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Submitted May 01, 2021 at 06:58PM by OutdoorGardener
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TIL that a study from the University of Connecticut found that cholesterol in egg yolks does not raise the LDL cholesterol particles that are associated with the development of cardiovascular disease.
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Submitted May 01, 2021 at 07:52PM by justbecool
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TIL that “glitch” is a Yiddish word. It was in use in the 1940s by radio announcers to indicate an on-air mistake. By the 1950s, the term had migrated to television, where engineers used glitch to refer to technical problems
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Submitted May 01, 2021 at 08:43PM by LoboDaTerra
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TIL that in 2010, an 18-year-old Indonesian man was found having sex with a cow, who he claimed flirted with him. In order to cleanse the village of the act of bestiality, the man was forced to ritually marry the cow. The cow was then drowned in the ocean, and the man was also symbolically drowned
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Submitted May 01, 2021 at 08:55PM by malalatargaryen
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TIL that the standard workday was reduced to 8 hours because of international protests held on May 1st, the original Labor Day. "May Day" is still celebrated in most places around the globe, by everyone from Communists to Catholics, with the exception of the United States.
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Submitted May 01, 2021 at 10:24PM by puty784
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TIL of a "Kotatsu", A traditional japanese table with attached blanket. You can use it to relax, nap, eat/drink/hangout with friends and even has a built in heater underneath.
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Submitted May 01, 2021 at 09:20PM by ohsowonderful
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TIL a taxi driver in London must complete an exam called the "Knowledge of London" to obtain a licence to operate a black cab. It is the world's most demanding training course for taxicab drivers, and the whole process takes 34 months on average to pass. 25,000 streets must be learned.
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Submitted May 01, 2021 at 10:53PM by HDY8
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TIL One of the first ever works of post apocalyptic fiction was written in 1826 by Mary Shelley, author Frankestein. In it, she describes a dystopian future in which earth in the 21st century is ravaged by a mysterius pandemic
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Submitted May 01, 2021 at 11:26PM by Ainsley-Sorsby
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TIL In 1974, when President Nixon visited Syria, the Syrians sent MiG fighter jets as a friendly escort for Nixon's Air Force One. Someone forgot to tell the pilot of Air Force One, who thought the plane was being attacked and took evasive maneuvers.
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Submitted May 01, 2021 at 10:35PM by THICK_CUM_ROPES
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TIL that in the original "Wayne's World" noscript, the T-1000 simply told Wayne "you're speeding". The line was changed at the last second when a producer's son said it wasn't funny.
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Submitted May 02, 2021 at 01:14AM by TrevorIsTheGOAT
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TIL Staten Island voted to secede from New York City in 1993, but was blocked the by state
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Submitted May 02, 2021 at 03:20AM by Topher1999
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TIL that the song "Build a Little Birdhouse in Your Soul" is written from the perspective of a bedside lamp watching what goes on in the world in front of it. The song is barely three minutes long, but it changes keys 18 times.
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Submitted May 02, 2021 at 03:24AM by redwolve378
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TIL three-quarters of the animated film A Goofy Movie had to be refilmed due to a single dead pixel on a faulty monitor, leading to Disney delaying the release of the film from Thanksgiving 1994 to April 7, 1995
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Submitted May 02, 2021 at 05:01AM by johnnylgarfield
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TIL that, in July 2020, marine biologists studying the seafloor in the South Pacific Gyre ("the deadest spot in the ocean") discovered aerobic microorganisms in "quasi-suspended animation." At 101.5 million years old, they are the longest-living life forms ever found.
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Submitted May 02, 2021 at 07:56AM by WouldbeWanderer
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TIL: Disney spent 50 million dollars on a movie called 'The Shadow King' from the director of The Nightmare Before Christmas, upon seeing the footage Disney said it was too scary to make any money and immediately shut down production.
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Submitted May 02, 2021 at 12:33PM by Tysonsgloves
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TIL the elite schools of the Aztec Empire, where you studied subjects such as medicine, astronomy, engineering, theology, and law were called "Houses of Tears" due to incredibly high standards and chores placed on students
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Submitted May 02, 2021 at 11:46AM by Chicano_Ducky
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