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TIL Presidential speech writer William Safire had prepared an "In Event of Moon Disaster" announcement for Nixon to read in the event the Apollo 11 astronauts were stranded on the Moon
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Submitted December 02, 2021 at 03:19AM by ThiCrayton
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TIL The man who took the first up close photo of a snowflake, Wilson A. Bentley in 1885, also started the concept "No two snowflakes are alike". In his lifetime, he took over 5k photos of snowflakes.
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Submitted December 02, 2021 at 03:08AM by dolmdemon
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TIL: Chicago singer and guitarist Terry Kath's last words were "What do you think I'm gonna do, blow my brains out?" just before put what he thought was an unloaded semi-automatic pistol to his temple and pulled the trigger. He didn't realize there was a round in the chamber.
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Submitted December 02, 2021 at 04:30AM by brother_p
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TIL that giant squid brains are donut shaped and their esophagus runs right through it, making grinding its food into tiny pieces an evolutionary priority
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Submitted December 02, 2021 at 04:15AM by lovelyb1ch66
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TIL an australian man suffered from am heart attack in an accident and spent 15 days in a coma. To celebrate his miraculous recovery, he bought a lottery ticket and won a $30,000 car. When asked to reenact the win by local news, he agreed and bought another scratch card. He won $250,000.
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Submitted December 02, 2021 at 07:07AM by NefariousnessFew9671
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TIL Dale Carnegie, author of "How to Win Friends and Influence People", taught that one should never argue with or contradict anyone, because you won't convince them. Instead they will only get mad and people can be irrational due to pride
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Submitted December 02, 2021 at 07:35AM by yaboodooect
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TIL that Julius Caesar was kidnapped by pirates and, on finding out what they were asking in ransom, demanded it be higher because of how important he was. He forced them to listen to speeches he composed and often threatened to crucify them.
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Submitted December 02, 2021 at 10:27AM by numerous__papaya
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TIL that when Syphilis reached Europe in the 16th century, it became known as “the French Disease” in Italy, Malta, Poland, and Germany; “the Italian Disease” in France; “the Spanish Disease” in the Netherlands; “the Polish Disease” in Russia; and “the Christian Disease” in the Ottoman Empire
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Submitted December 02, 2021 at 01:26PM by Rob-With-One-B
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TIL after a Baptist church ran a newspaper ad calling beer "The Devil's Craft," a taproom began accepting it as a coupon for discounted beer
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Submitted December 02, 2021 at 03:19PM by Amstersmash
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TIL that Gatorade was developed for the Florida Gators as their physician noticed that their carbs and electrolytes levels were depleted and not replenished. After the the introduction of the beverage they went on a winning spree.
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Submitted December 02, 2021 at 03:08PM by assolutofrut
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TIL that the dark areas of the Milk Way are actually dust clouds. It's called Great Rift or sometimes called the Dark Rift or less commonly the Dark River.
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Submitted December 02, 2021 at 02:48PM by beikbeikbeik
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TIL That "Las Ketchup - Asereje" does not only sound a little bit like "Rapper's Delight by the Sugarhill Gang", the song is in fact about a man named Diego, who is singing Rapper's Delight without knowing the lyrics.
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Submitted December 02, 2021 at 12:47PM by BcMeBcMe
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TIL John Barrymore, a star in the 1920s and 1930s, and grandfather of Drew Barrymore, was in a recurring poker game with Errol Flynn, W.C. Fields, and poet Sadakichi Hartmann. After Barrymore's death the men stole his body from the morgue to play one last hand of poker with their friend's corpse.
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Submitted December 02, 2021 at 05:44PM by marmorset
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TIL The Beach Boys 'Good Vibrations' was the most expensive single produced at that time. It was inspired by Brian Wilson's mother telling him dogs could tell if a person was good or bad based on their vibrations. Wilson considered the song to be "his whole life performance in one track".
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Submitted December 02, 2021 at 06:28PM by Bluest_waters
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TIL Bing Crosby sang White Christmas for 100,000 tearful troops in France during WWII, he said it was the hardest thing he had to do in his career to not break down himself. Many of the troops would die at the Battle of the Bulge shortly after.
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Submitted December 02, 2021 at 07:57PM by astra1039
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TIL of Cox-Zucker algorithm. The name is a homophone for an obscenity, and this was a deliberate move by Cox and Zucker, who conceived of the idea of co-authoring a paper as graduate students at Princeton for the express purpose of enabling this joke"
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Submitted December 02, 2021 at 08:07PM by imaginary_name
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TIL an elderly man gained the trust of a Belgian bank by bringing the workers chocolates. He was eventually given VIP access to the bank vault. In 2007, he stole $28 million worth of diamonds and vanished.
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Submitted December 02, 2021 at 09:34PM by ogutucu
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TIL My Wife's [nth] Great Grandmother (who she's named after) Killed and Scalped 9 Abenaki Tribe Members After They Took Her Captive & Smashed Her Baby's Brains Out Against a Tree
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Submitted December 02, 2021 at 07:30PM by loatherhelms
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TIL the Energizer Bunny only exists in North America. The rest of the world knows the Duracell Bunny. The split occurred when Duracell let a trademark lapse in the US and Canada in 1988. Energizer took advantage of the lapse to create a parody pink drumming bunny, now common in North America.
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Submitted December 02, 2021 at 09:07PM by Archer1407
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