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TIL Vermont passed a law in 1999 that the state pie is Apple and one must make a “good faith effort” to serve it with either a glass of cold milk, 1/2 oz. of cheddar cheese, or a large scoop of vanilla.
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Submitted May 11, 2021 at 04:20AM by Biriuk1337
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TIL In 1985, an F-15A launched an anti-satellite missile from a 65-degree climb at 38,100 feet, knocking out an orbiting satellite 345 miles above the Earth; the missile traveled at 11,000 mph when it hit the satellite, which was orbiting at 17,000 mph
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Submitted May 11, 2021 at 02:22AM by jenkitty
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TIL about Anna Ladd, an American artist who, while living in France following WW 1, created hand painted copper masks for disfigured soldiers. This allowed soldiers who were despondent to become more comfortable with their appearance.
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Submitted May 11, 2021 at 01:14AM by entrtaner
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TIL That the original Wiggles reunited for a charity concert in 2020 and Greg Page, the original yellow Wiggle, suffered cardiac arrest on stage, stopped breathing and had to be resuscitated with the defibrillator.
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Submitted May 11, 2021 at 04:05AM by DystopianAdvocate
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TIL that Donatella Versace flew boyband Blue out to the Milan fashion week in her private jet thinking that she had invited Blur.
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Submitted May 11, 2021 at 11:57AM by djdodgystyle
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TIL a lake in Louisiana instantly became a roaring whirlpool sucking in eleven barges loaded with supplies, a tugboat, an oil drilling platform, many trees, and 75 acres of surrounding land in 1980 because of a bizarre drilling accident. No humans died but three dogs were reportedly killed.
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Submitted May 11, 2021 at 02:09PM by KimCureAll
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TIL that Steve Jobs had just been pruning apple trees in Oregon which led him to call his company Apple. “It sounded fun, spirited, and not intimidating. Apple took the edge off the word computer, ” Jobs said. “Plus, it would get us ahead of Atari in the phone book.”
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Submitted May 11, 2021 at 03:35PM by sundog925
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TIL that the USSR killed more than 180,000 whales between the 1950s and 1991 despite bans and fading commercial demand. The reason was that the quota for whales were never updated to match the need for them.
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Submitted May 11, 2021 at 03:14PM by uncertein_heritage
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TIL in the Middle Ages there was a belief animals understood the concept of morality and possessed rationality. They were summoned to court, put on trial for a variety of offenses, and given the same punishments as humans. Lawyers defended pigs, rats, and sheep. Even flies and slugs faced judgement.
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Submitted May 11, 2021 at 05:19PM by WhileFalseRepeat
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TIL that when Medieval monks would fast for religious reasons they would sometimes drink lots of beer instead of eating food, since drinking did not count as "food".
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Submitted May 11, 2021 at 08:43PM by JohnnyFiveOhAlive
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TIL that Luckenbach, Texas, which was made famous in a Waylon Jennings song, has a population of 3.
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Submitted May 12, 2021 at 03:14AM by daveysprocket001
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TIL that a company called Tweeter had its most active stock trading day in its history five years after it went out of business, after traders mistook their stock for that of Twitter, causing the price of the defunct company's shares to rise 1,000%
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Submitted May 12, 2021 at 07:49AM by SchuminWeb
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TIL that the Uffington White Horse, a prehistoric hill figure in Oxfordshire, England, was covered over with turf and hedge trimmings during the Second World War so that Luftwaffe pilots could not use it for navigation during bombing raids.
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Submitted May 12, 2021 at 06:10AM by LightofJah
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TIL that even though seed-bearing plants evolved ~360 million years ago, all plants that bare flowers or fruits have only existed for the past ~140 million years. Before seeds, plants used to reproduce through spores. The only living ancestors of these plants are ferns, horsetails, lycophytes.
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Submitted May 12, 2021 at 08:00AM by Napclubpresident
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TIL Ryan Reynolds (Deadpool) and Rob McElhenney (It's Always Sunny In Philadelphia) bought a soccer team together, Wrexham AFC, a Welsh club that plays in English soccer’s fifth tier.
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Submitted May 12, 2021 at 09:41AM by f_GOD
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TIL that in 2017, the British Nutrition Foundation ran a survey which found that 18% of five to seven-year-olds thought fish fingers are made from chicken, and 29% thought cheese came from a plant
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Submitted May 12, 2021 at 11:17AM by johnlen1n
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TIL that - led by two grandsons of Genghis Khan - the Mongol army invaded nearly half of Europe. Had the ruling Khan not drunkenly died on a hunting trip, they could have taken the entire continent.
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Submitted May 12, 2021 at 01:08PM by BandaidPuppet
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