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TIL On the first day of the Korean war, the S.Korean navy spotted and sunk a ship carrying 600 N.Korean commandos near the Southern port city of Busan. Since the city was barely defended, historians believe that had they landed, S.Korea would've fell before UN forces could intervene in the war.
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Submitted September 14, 2021 at 10:30PM by soyfox
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TIL that by sheer coincidence, Finnair flight 666, at 13 o'clock on Friday the 13th with a 13 year old Airbus Jet, landed safely in HEL (Helsinki) airport in 2017.
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Submitted September 14, 2021 at 10:41PM by Happy_Hair319
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TIL that cat food and water bowls should be shallow enough that their whiskers don't touch the sides to avoid whisker fatigue. Whisker fatigue is often the source for picky eaters as well as added stress for cats.
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Submitted September 14, 2021 at 09:32PM by TSMFTXandCats
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TIL that during the Seinfeld finale, TVLand didn’t run any programming opposite it. Instead, they just showed a still shot of a closed office door with a pair of handwritten notes that said "We're TV Fans so... we're watching the last episode of Seinfeld. Will return at 10pm et, 7pm pt."
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Submitted September 15, 2021 at 04:06AM by EtOHMartini
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TIL in 1984 javelin thrower Uwe Hohn threw a distance of 104.8m and became the first and only athlete in history to break the 100m barrier. Shortly afterwards some changes in the design of javelins were implemented and the records had to be restarted, turning his mark into an "eternal world record".
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Submitted September 15, 2021 at 05:52AM by heckin_rude_hooman
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TIL There is enough stone in the Great Pyramid of Giza to build a 3 meter (9 foot) wall around France
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Submitted September 14, 2021 at 11:52PM by lughnasadh
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TIL Stephen King never cashed the cheque he got for the film rights to Shawshank Redemption. Years after Shawshank came out, the author got the check framed and mailed it back to Frank Darabont with a note inscribed: ‘In case you ever need bail money. Love, Steve
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Submitted September 15, 2021 at 09:32AM by hanky1979
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TIL black stones in Go are manufactured to be slightly larger compared to the white ones, to compensate for the optical illusion of white objects looking bigger when placed adjacent to black objects.
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Submitted September 15, 2021 at 08:41AM by blueberrisorbet
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TIL in 1971, the first person to successfully escape America’s first “SUPERMAX” prison said he did it to bring attention to his water desalination research
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Submitted September 15, 2021 at 12:24PM by seattlethrowaway114
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TIL 50 Years Ago, Sugar Industry Quietly Paid Scientists To Point Blame At Fat. Sponsored research by Harvard scientists suggested there were major problems with all the studies that implicated sugar, and that cutting fat out of American diets was the best way to address coronary heart disease
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Submitted September 15, 2021 at 03:20PM by BoboTheGreatBear
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TIL about the movie Zyzzyx Road starring Katherine Heigl and Tom Sizemore. It made $20 at Box Office. Twenty dollars.
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Submitted September 15, 2021 at 02:51PM by un-petit-capu
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TIL about the melon drop scam, a con that targeted Japanese tourists. Scammers would buy a watermelon for a low price and then bump into an Asian tourist and charge them about $100 for the broken melon. This is due to the higher fruit prices in Japan. These days the scam involves any broken item.
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Submitted September 15, 2021 at 02:58PM by dilettantedebrah
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TIL in 1914 the first residential air conditioners cost between $10k and $50k (or $120k to $600k inflation-adjusted). By the 1960s, they were as low as $416 (or $4k inflation-adjusted). Since then, heat-related deaths in the U.S. have declined by 80 percent.
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Submitted September 15, 2021 at 04:32PM by SojourningCPA
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TIL Due to casino distributions, every Seminole Indian child born is a multi millionaire when they turn 18 years old.
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Submitted September 15, 2021 at 05:20PM by joecooool418
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TIL: WW 2 Japanese nuclear weapons project Ni-go and F-go. Initial conclusion was that an atomic bomb was theoretically, but not technically, feasible. They then concluded that the US was probably working on a bomb, but that neither it nor Germany could complete one during wartime.
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Submitted September 15, 2021 at 03:17PM by MRChuckNorris
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TIL of An0m, a device marketed to criminal organizations as super-secure, with its own closed messaging network. It was actually run by law enforcement across multiple countries, who got copies of every communication sent through it.
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Submitted September 15, 2021 at 06:51PM by Mexicanuck
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TIL when initial FBI investigation occurred in Larry Nassar/USA Gymnastics abuse scandal, the FBI agent did not document his interviews with gymnasts for 17 months. An OIG investigation later discovered that the FBI agent's boss was seeking a job at the USA Gymnastics organisation.
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Submitted September 15, 2021 at 08:25PM by Indira-Gandhi
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TIL that Norm Macdonald's famous 'Moth Joke' was mostly improvised on the spot when he realised he had been booked for an additional segment on Conan for which he had not prepared, turning an old classic 20 second joke into a long drawn out domestic moth tragedy to fill the time.
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Submitted September 15, 2021 at 09:29PM by ToiletRollTubeGuy
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TIL Subway’s parent company is called Doctor's Associates Inc. because co-founders Peter Buck has a Ph.D. in nuclear physics and Fred DeLuca, who was 17, hoped to become a medical doctor
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Submitted September 15, 2021 at 07:32PM by Travel-Kitty
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