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TIL about Letterlocking: an ancient method of folding your letters to protect your privacy
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Submitted December 11, 2021 at 11:54PM by fabulousfred
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TIL in WW2 the Nazis were thinking of ruining the British economy by dropping counterfeit bank notes, causing inflation.
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Submitted December 12, 2021 at 04:20AM by Potataly
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TIL The Lake at the Bellagio Las Vegas is serviced by a freshwater well that was drilled decades prior to irrigate a golf course on the site. The lake actually uses less water than irrigating the Golf Course did.
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Submitted December 12, 2021 at 12:23AM by Equal_Presence
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TIL Scientists in Denmark dissolves two Nobel Prize medals in acid to hide it from the Nazis. After war the scientists extract the gold from the acid- gold solutions send it back to the Swedish Academy and they recast two new medals and return them.
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Submitted December 12, 2021 at 11:16AM by wontfixit
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TIL the inventor of pantyhose was inspired when his pregnant wife told him she didn't want to travel due to not being able to comfortably wear stockings and a garter belt. He decided that sewing stockings onto panties would help with this. In 1959, his product was in stores.
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Submitted December 12, 2021 at 11:38AM by dilettantedebrah
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TIL brainfuck is an esoteric programming language whose compiler uses only 240 bytes of memory making it around 11,000 times smaller than the C++ compiler.
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Submitted December 12, 2021 at 08:51AM by TheOffBeatDoc
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TIL a cancer treatment known as Dynamic Phototherapy has the side effect of giving humans a slight level of night vision. Under this treatment, the retina becomes able to process light at wavelengths higher than the visible light domain.
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Submitted December 12, 2021 at 02:48PM by The_Ry_Ry
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TIL Jason Sudeikis is the nephew of George Wendt, who played Norm in Cheers. George is Jason's maternal uncle.
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Submitted December 12, 2021 at 03:06PM by Diligent-Builder
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TIL that a number of Victorian photographers combined images from more than one negative to create illusions or novelty portraits. “Headless Photographs” featured men and women with “their heads floating in the air or in their laps”.
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Submitted December 12, 2021 at 03:49PM by letdogsdrive
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TIL that while NASA uses hook and loop as a fastener for many, many things in zero gee environments, they ingeniously fasten half of it (presumably the loop side?) inside astronauts' helmets for an important purpose: it serves as a hands-free nose scratcher.
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Submitted December 12, 2021 at 04:28PM by 2BallsInTheHole
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TIL that poop should sink, not float. A floating poop is a sign of poor absorption of nutrients or excessive gas.
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Submitted December 12, 2021 at 07:14PM by FerretNeuron
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TIL: Ketchup is a non-newtonian fluid, unlike "magic mud" it's viscosity actually lowers when a force is applied to it. This why ketchup will often pour out in such large unintended quantities after a little shake
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Submitted December 12, 2021 at 05:49PM by Jedi_Lucky
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TIL In 1997 there was a contest to win an exact replica of The Simpson's house, fully furnished. The winner could keep the home or trade it for $75,000. The winner took the money. The house was stripped of its decor before being sold.
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Submitted December 12, 2021 at 06:54PM by SheilaWholehearted
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TIL that Samuel Adams (a lifelong Protestant/Congregationalist) attended his first ever Catholic mass with friend Charles Carroll in 1774. He was so amazed by the music, chanting, and ceremony, that he wrote his wife “I wonder how Luther ever broke the spell”.
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Submitted December 12, 2021 at 08:57PM by Money-Theme
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TIL that German-born soldiers made up about 10% of Union forces during the Civil War. Some of them were exiled supporters of the 1848 revolutions that swept Europe. After the war, the Forty-Eighters supported improved labor laws, and also advanced development in education, medicine, and journalism.
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Submitted December 12, 2021 at 09:26PM by SomeGuy671
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TIL that Yorkshire, England is home to the largest and most expensive fossilised poo in the world deposited by a Viking over 1,300 years ago
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Submitted December 12, 2021 at 06:45PM by LarryOtter1988
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