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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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TIL that Galba, the sixth Roman emperor, was so unpopular that after he was murdered by his successor Otho, around 120 people claimed credit for killing him, hoping that Otho would reward them. However, Otho was then deposed by Vitellius, who ordered them all executed.
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Submitted May 12, 2021 at 02:24PM by ShabtaiBenOron
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TIL a mummy of the daughter of Xerxes was put on display in The National Museum of Pakistan in 2000. A year later analysis of the mummy revealed the woman was murdered around 1996 and the case remains unsolved.
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Submitted May 13, 2021 at 09:57PM by The_pun_fart
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TIL:During a SAS special operation against Nazi forces in Italy, using a force including Italians, a Scottish bagpiper volunteered to join the attack so that the Nazi's would think it was solely a British operation and not attack the locals
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Submitted May 13, 2021 at 06:14PM by z3dster
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TIL that the Hammer Museum in Haines, Alaska is the first museum in the world dedicated to hammers, and it boasts 1400 hammers and related tools ranging from ancient times to the industrial era. Its mission is to educate the general public about the history and use of hammers.
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Submitted May 14, 2021 at 12:56AM by KimCureAll
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TIL Apple purchased the iPhone.org domain name in 1999, eight years before the official introduction of the iPhone.
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Submitted May 14, 2021 at 01:52AM by operatingsys2016
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TIL The first road vehicle to go over 100 kilometres per hour (62 mph) it was a Belgian electric vehicle. Camille Jenatzy accomplished this feat in a car he designed himself, "La Jamais contente" (Never Satisfied), set a road speed record of 105.88 km/h on 29 April 1899, in Achères.
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Submitted May 13, 2021 at 08:03PM by kajtebriga1
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