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TIL beavers build their dams as an instinct to stop the sounds of water leaks. If a speaker is playing just the sound of running water, a beaver will build a dam over it. This is even if it’s over concrete with no visible water, or if an actual nearby leaky water source is quieter than the speaker.
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Submitted August 04, 2021 at 12:27AM by imaginexus
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TIL that, tired of teaspoons being stolen from the breakroom, a medical institute conducted a study on the rate of disappearance of the spoons. They concluded that "an estimated 250 teaspoons would need to be purchased annually to maintain a practical institute-wide population of 70 teaspoons"
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Submitted August 04, 2021 at 03:11AM by Rob-With-One-B
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TIL of Yaphank, NY, a town where certain plots of land required the owners to be of German descent and hosted many German-American Bund rallies. The property rules existed into the 2000s, when they were finally sued under Fair Housing doctrine.
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Submitted August 03, 2021 at 11:10PM by BetterUsername69420
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TIL that Offspring's lead singer, Dexter Holland, has earned his PhD in Molecular Biology in 2017. After that he insists that the other members of the band address him using the noscript of Dr. Dexter
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Submitted August 04, 2021 at 04:39AM by AnEroticTale
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TIL that Herodotus, also known as “The Father of History”, was accused by a fellow historian, Thucydides, of making up stories for entertainment. Today, modern Historians and Archaeologists have confirmed most of what he wrote in “Histories”, to be factual.
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Submitted August 04, 2021 at 03:49AM by UltraAverageGuy
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TIL that "assload" and "buttload" have different origins. "Assload" originally referred to the load a donkey could carry, while "buttload" referred to the volume a "butt", a type of large cask, could hold.
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Submitted August 04, 2021 at 06:02AM by InsertANameHeree
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TIL Olympic Pole Vaulter Sergey Bubka was being payed $100,000 every time he set a world record, he subsequently set the world record 35 times.
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Submitted August 04, 2021 at 04:19AM by ColeyPatroley
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TIL of María Pita, a commoner Spanish woman who, during the Siege of Coruña in 1589, snatched the English banner from an English officer while defending the walls and killed him with the pole. He was Sir Francis Drake's brother. Massive demoralization ensued, causing the English to lose the battle.
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Submitted August 04, 2021 at 08:36AM by EmotionalCockroach43
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TIL that the Red Bull energy drink was originally invented by a duck farmer from Thailand as a hangover cure (called Krathing Daeng in Thai) before being bought over by Austrian businessman Dietrich Mateschitz who discovered it on a business trip in 1987.
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Submitted August 04, 2021 at 11:23AM by studyinthai333
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TIL that a scientist in Antarctica tried to murder his co workers because he kept revealing him how his favourite books ended. It was the first arrest for attempted murder ever in Antarctica.
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Submitted August 04, 2021 at 02:42PM by Jeremy_Martin
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TIL about the "Kapsalon" - a Dutch dish named after a hairdresser consisting of a layer of fries in a disposable metal tray, topped with gyro meat, covered with slices of Gouda cheese, a layer of lettuce, garlic sauce and hot sauce.
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Submitted August 04, 2021 at 06:18PM by SwissJAmes
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TIL that a German family worth close to $40B built their wealth as hardcore Nazis starting in the 1920s. They now own Panera, Krispy Kreme, Dr. Pepper, Snapple, Jimmy Choo and 12 percent of the global coffee market.
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Submitted August 04, 2021 at 08:21PM by kaboomboomer
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TIL: That corn isn't the only seed that can be popped. Sorghum, Quinoa, and wild rice are just a few of the many seeds that pop. And most of them don't have the kernel husk that gets stuck in your teeth
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Submitted August 04, 2021 at 07:27PM by Antscannabis
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TIL that Martin Van Buren is the only president who's first language wasn't English - it was Dutch.
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Submitted August 04, 2021 at 05:07PM by SettyDub
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TIL the Nazi Party was a small, irrelevant organization with only a few dozen members until the German military ordered a soldier to join the Nazis (then the DAP) as a spy. He became enamored with their ideology and used his charisma to help the Party grow. That soldier's name? Adolph Hitler.
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Submitted August 04, 2021 at 08:15PM by liberatedbrick
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TIL New Zealand has a very high rate of teen suicide and in 2017 had the highest rate of any wealthy country in the world.
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Submitted August 05, 2021 at 02:50AM by swentech
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TIL that ancient greek males were not ashamed of exposing their entire genitalia, only the glans. This led to the habit of covering it up with the foreskin using a special knot called "kynodesme", or dog tie.
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Submitted August 05, 2021 at 04:18AM by Trama-D
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