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TIL a bunch of Harry Potter fans built a legitimate cult-like religion called Snapeism, based on the idea that Severus Snape was an immortal deity whose spirit inspired JK Rowling to write the Harry Potter books
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Submitted May 20, 2021 at 07:34AM by gmcrow
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TIL that Cher is the only artist in history to have a Number One song on the Billboard Music Charts for six consecutive decades.
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Submitted May 20, 2021 at 09:24AM by frauenarzZzt
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TIL that for many years prior to the Crusades, Muslims, Jews, and Christians worked together to translate and reproduce Ancient Greek texts, like Aristotle, to reintroduce lost literature to the world.
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Submitted May 20, 2021 at 10:08AM by Squaragus_Asparagus
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TIL that "daddy long legs" are not spiders. They are called Harvestmen, or Opiliones, and they are more closely related to mites.
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Submitted May 20, 2021 at 08:31AM by Marenyalia
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TIL That the chocolate river in the 1971 movie "Willy Wonka & The Chocolate Factory" Was actually made of real chocolate, water, and cream, and it spoiled quickly and stunk really bad afterwards.
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Submitted May 20, 2021 at 12:03PM by ProcessIndependent13
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TIL Christopher Columbus' efforts to obtain support for his voyages were hampered not by belief in a flat Earth but by valid worries that the East Indies were farther than he realized. In fact, Columbus grossly underestimated the Earth's circumference and caused he and his crew's near starvation.
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Submitted May 20, 2021 at 01:18PM by The_Internet_Author
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TIL that after George Washington read the Declaration of Independence on July 9, 1776, the crowd was so moved that they toppled the statue of George III, decapitated it, and then later melted the body to make bullets. the head eventually made it's way back to England.
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Submitted May 20, 2021 at 01:54PM by CommonSchemeForYou
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TIL Luis Vitton burn any excess stock at the end of each year to main exclusivity, theft and avoid discount prices
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Submitted May 20, 2021 at 01:40PM by jewfishcartel
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TIL In WW II, German submarines used the lights from US coastal cities to see US shipments. Coastal cities refused to limit lighting as was done in Europe due to tourism, and as a result much shipping was destroyed.
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Submitted May 20, 2021 at 02:54PM by RoadsterTracker
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TIL that in 1216 Prince Louis of France invaded England and was proclaimed King of England with the support of many English nobles. Eventually the English changed their minds and paid him to agree that he had never actually been king, so Louis doesn't appear in any official list of Kings of England.
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Submitted May 20, 2021 at 01:36PM by TelescopiumHerscheli
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TIL that monkeys in Japan learned to wash sweet potatoes in fresh water to clean them. They later switched to washing sweet potatoes in salt water. It is theorized that this is because they like the salty taste more than plain potatoes.
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Submitted May 20, 2021 at 07:00PM by I_am_1E27
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TIL Tommy Chong’s daughter Rae Dawn Chong discovered actor Chris Pratt working as a waiter at a Bubba Gump restaurant and cast him in a film.
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Submitted May 20, 2021 at 05:41PM by OG_Cryptkeeper
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TIL George Washington was known as "town destroyer" and "burner of towns" among Native Americans
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Submitted May 20, 2021 at 07:19PM by anarcho-hornyist
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TIL that in Malcolm in the Middle, Bryan Cranston used to hum improvised tunes. He then joined a songwriters guild so that everything he improvised earned him a royalty check of a few hundred dollars. He used this money to throw parties for the cast and crew. The crew even encouraged his humming.
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Submitted May 20, 2021 at 10:24PM by Disastrous_Thing_733
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TIL: A park bench in Bristol was given an official postal address so doctors could register the homeless as patients
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Submitted May 20, 2021 at 09:17PM by diacewrb
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TIL that “Golden Girl” Bea Arthur enlisted in the Marines in 1943 where she was one of the first members of the Women’s Reserve and spent time as a typist and a truck driver.
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Submitted May 20, 2021 at 09:54PM by sundog925
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TIL Kentaro Miura, author of manga series Berserk, was so meticulous that he would often go pixel-by-pixel in digital drawing software meant to streamline his inking and drawing process
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Submitted May 21, 2021 at 02:15AM by cyanide4suicide
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