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TIL that after an All-Star professional sports career in both football and baseball, Bo Jackson completed his Bachelors degree in Family and Child Development to fulfill the promise he made to his mother.
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Submitted May 22, 2021 at 05:11PM by palebot
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TIL the story of eight elderly Belgian nuns who sold their convent without permission from the church for $1.4 mil. They used the money to buy a castle in France, racehorses, and a number of luxury cars including a Mercedes with a bar.
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Submitted May 22, 2021 at 07:46PM by SonicMule
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TIL in Japan, you can hire a handsome man to watch sappy movies with you and wipe away your tears. The company, "Ikemeso Danshi," (Handsome Weeping Boys) was born out of the idea that crying can be therapeutic and showing off your vulnerability can make you work better as a team.
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Submitted May 22, 2021 at 04:25PM by The_Internet_Author
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TIL the EU offers free train passes to 18-year-olds so that they can explore Europe
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Submitted May 22, 2021 at 07:58PM by TheChopinet
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TIL of "Corporal Jackie," a baboon who was commissioned as a corporal in the South African Army when his owner refused to go to war without him. He lit cigarettes for his comrades, was wounded twice and won medals, and comforted wounded men until help could arrive.
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Submitted May 22, 2021 at 08:54PM by ClapboardArchipelago
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TIL that in 2009 Icelandic engineers accidentally drilled into a magma chamber with temperatures up to 1000C (1832F). Instead of abandoning the well like a previous project in Hawaii, they decided to pump water down and became the most powerful geothermal well ever created.
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Submitted May 22, 2021 at 10:18PM by kenwood-breadmaker
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TIL when Nathan’s Famous Hot Dogs first opened in 1916, the owner hired people to dress as doctors and eat hot dogs outside his shop, to convince people his hot dogs were healthy.
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Submitted May 23, 2021 at 02:17AM by 02K30C1
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TIL Putting spaces between written words wasn't a thing until the 7th Century and didn't become popular in Europe for another few hundred years (Romanauthorsthoughtyoucouldjustfigureitoutfromcontext)
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Submitted May 22, 2021 at 08:50PM by MaxAvery
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TIL that flowers are physically growing with darker coloured petals nowadays due to their rapid adaptation to combat the suns radiation from the thinning ozone layer.
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Submitted May 23, 2021 at 02:47AM by superweirdooctopus
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TIL That, in 1979, two East German Families wanted to escape East Germany, and to do that, they made a hot air balloon, got on a hill, and with that balloon they got 2,500 meters into the air, and managed to cross the Iron Curtain into West Germany with a Hot Air Balloon, flying past border defenses
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Submitted May 23, 2021 at 04:57AM by Pablo_BW
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TIL Dave Thomas, the founder of Wendy's, was adopted when he was just 6 weeks old. His adoptive mother died when he was 5, and he was abused by his adoptive father. Hoping he could find better matches for other children in the future, he founded the Dave Thomas Foundation for Adoption in 1992.
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Submitted May 23, 2021 at 06:55AM by The_Internet_Author
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TIL that a breed of wool dogs existed on the pacific northwest coast. Indigenous people would keep the dogs isolated on small islands to prevent inter breeding with hunting dogs. The wool dogs were cared for and feed a rich diet of seafood to produce strong yarn to make blankets from.
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Submitted May 23, 2021 at 08:48AM by divestfromfossilfuel
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TIL that the oldest animal (at least, the oldest whose age has been identified) was a 507 year-old clam that washed up on the beach in Iceland. Researchers, not realizing how old the clam was, killed it while they were examining it.
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Submitted May 23, 2021 at 05:36AM by Choano
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TIL while monkeys have the vocal cords to speak like humans do, their brains lack the wiring necessary to control their voices for precise tones. This prevents them from making the wide range of sounds necessary for speech. If their brains were wired like a human, they could theoretically talk.
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Submitted May 23, 2021 at 01:18PM by ZamboniJunction
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TIL Lake Tahoe is home to the oldest petroglyphs ever discovered in North America and a mummy three times as old as the Egyptian mummy King Tut.
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Submitted May 23, 2021 at 03:02PM by The_Ry_Ry
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TIL That In English and German culture, Death is typically portrayed as male, but in French, Spanish, and Italian culture, it is not uncommon for Death to be female. In the Netherlands, Death is sometimes referred to as 'Uncle Hendrik'.
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Submitted May 23, 2021 at 08:27AM by DystopianAdvocate
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