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TIL 40 parakeets were released from an amusement park in Brussels in 1974, and while they shouldn't have survived (parakeets aren't indigenous in Europe) today there's more than 12,000 individuals
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Submitted December 15, 2021 at 12:38AM by francistheoctopus
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TIL Hooters ran a Valentine's day publicity stunt where you got a discount if you destroyed your ex's photo. In 2020, they destroyed 49k photos!
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Submitted December 14, 2021 at 08:59PM by Nimja_
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TIL that the majority of silent era films are irrevocably lost and that at least half of all sound films from 1927 to 1950 are lost
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Submitted December 15, 2021 at 01:23AM by upsidedownboris
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TIL John Steinbeck, author of such classics as Of Mice and Men, once wrote a werewolf murder mystery novel noscriptd, Murder at Full Moon. It was never published.
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Submitted December 15, 2021 at 02:27AM by FantomeBlue
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TIL about Tim Wong who successfully and singlehandedly repopulated the rare California Pipevine Swallowtail butterfly in San Francisco. In the past few years, he’s cultivated more than 200 pipevine plants (their only food source) and gives thousands of caterpillars to his local Botanical Garden.
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Submitted December 15, 2021 at 06:08AM by AwesomeFrito
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TIL UFC Champion Charles Oliveira who was born in a poor family in a favela in Brazil, was diagnosed with a disease at age 7 and was told he would never walk again. His mother responded "we don't accept that." His mom then sold snacks and discarded cardboard on the streets to help fund his training
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Submitted December 15, 2021 at 05:25AM by Berisha11
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TIL that IBM once required employees to sing praises of it's president and company from the official IBM Songbook.
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Submitted December 15, 2021 at 01:15AM by topcat5
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TIL the fastest-advancing solar technology as of 2016 was the Perovskite solar cell. This type of solar cell, made of a hybrid organic-inorganic lead or tin halide-based material, has the potential to achieve higher efficiency and lower cost than any solar cell currently commercially available.
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Submitted December 15, 2021 at 06:45AM by DioriteLover
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TIL that Vikings kept brown bears as semi-domesticated pets, raising them from cubs to become "house bears." If a bear got loose and wreaked havoc, its owner had to pay a large fine. Polar bears were less common, but sometimes kept as house bears by royalty or the upper class.
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Submitted December 15, 2021 at 08:56AM by andante528
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TIL the Polish Scouts fought the nazis in the Warsaw uprising, avoiding booby traps of poisoned candy and then went on to resist communism up to the fall of the soviet Union.
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Submitted December 15, 2021 at 01:40PM by Amygdali_lama
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TIL Cows can walk down stairs, contrary to popular belief, but only if they have to. They avoid the situation as much as possible because they are not prepared by evolution for such steep slopes and foreign leg movements.
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Submitted December 15, 2021 at 12:22PM by sylsau
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TIL about the Jallianwala Bagh Massacre aka the Amritsar Incident where in 1919 the British Imperial army opened fire, without warning, on a peaceful gathering protesting the inhumanities of the colonialist government leading to thousand of deaths of unarmed men, women and children.
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Submitted December 15, 2021 at 02:50PM by mayank1193
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TIL when George Harrison's mother was pregnant with him, she often listened to a weekly broadcast on Sundays called Radio India. She hoped the sounds of the sitars, tablas, and exotic music brought baby George calm and peace in the womb. Later George brought Indian sounds to the Beatles.
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Submitted December 15, 2021 at 03:41PM by GregJamesDahlen
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TIL that Benedict Cumberbatch, was kidnapped together with Denise Black and a mutual friend near Lake St. Lucia in South Africa by a gang of six men. By nightfall, he managed to persuade his abductors that they could get in trouble if they harmed him or his friends. The trio was then let go.
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Submitted December 15, 2021 at 03:30PM by masbond84
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TIL New York's Son of Sam Law, which prevents criminals from profiting from their crimes, was declared unconstitutional by the Supreme Court over the book Wiseguy. Which was turned into the movie Goodfellas.
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Submitted December 15, 2021 at 04:40PM by AudibleNod
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TIL GM recalled 800k cars in 2014 for faulty ignitions. The cars would shut off while being driven which meant drivers lost power steering/brakes, and the airbags wouldn't deploy. They knew about the problem since 2005 but never fixed it because it would be 'too expensive'. 124 people died.
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Submitted December 15, 2021 at 06:00PM by rexmons
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TIL that “Baby, It’s Cold Outside” was written by composer Frank Loesser in 1944 for he and his wife to sing at the end of their housewarming party as a way to tell guests it was time to leave. Afterwards, they were invited to tons of parties with the expectation of the song being the closing act.
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Submitted December 15, 2021 at 06:16PM by Ben-Stanley
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TIL that Japanese bread is so soft because it included cooked-flour dough in the bread mixture. "The Japanese realized that by cooking the flour, the dough absorbs all the water. This cooked dough is added into the rest of the bread mixture, which gives a moister mouthfeel.”
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Submitted December 15, 2021 at 06:08PM by wrestlebuffet
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