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TIL that when all movie theaters were closed in 2020, a filmmaker made a movie in one week and rented out an entire theater to show it in. It was officially recognized as the #1 movie in America on that day. Because he was technically both the studio and the theater, he made all of his money back.
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Submitted December 20, 2021 at 03:55PM by derstherower
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TIL the FICO credit score system we use today wasn’t established until 1989.
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Submitted December 20, 2021 at 01:23PM by botanricecandy17
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TIL The prototype of the Rolls Royce Ghost was so quiet inside that it made test drivers sick. The engineers had to remove some of the noise isolating material, and create seats that vibrated at specific frequencies to introduce some noise into the interior.
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Submitted December 20, 2021 at 05:42PM by splityoassintwo
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TIL in 2014 An ancient virus called Pithovirus has "come back to life" after lying dormant for at least 30,000 years, scientists say. It was found frozen in a deep layer of the Siberian permafrost, but after it thawed it became infectious once again.
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Submitted December 20, 2021 at 05:10PM by Hectrekt
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TIL Disney's Jungle Cruise ride was built in a lot full of orange trees. Some of them had to be removed to make way for construction and they tagged them with red and green to know which ones to keep, but the bulldozer operator was color blind and removed them all.
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Submitted December 20, 2021 at 10:49PM by AMonkeyAndALavaLamp
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TIL that Lance Henriksen, who played the iconic role of the synthetic human Bishop in the 1986 film Aliens, was illiterate until the age of 30.
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Submitted December 20, 2021 at 08:09PM by Mabelmudge
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TIL Tu Youyou discovered artemisinin and dihydroartemisinin, used to treat malaria, a breakthrough in twentieth-century tropical medicine, saving millions of lives. She is described as “almost completely forgotten by people”.
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Submitted December 21, 2021 at 12:12AM by godsknowledge
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TIL There is no such thing as an alpha wolf in the wild as unlike in some instances in captivity, there are no innate hierarchy among them and a "pack" is more like a family.
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Submitted December 20, 2021 at 11:31PM by Certified_Cichlid
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TIL the nurse,Caroline Hampton, helped popularize surgical gloves. She almost quit her job as a surgical nurse at John Hopkins due to severe hand eczema caused by surgical disinfectant until her boss bought her custom rubber gloves. Other staff members copied this and found they made work easier.
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Submitted December 21, 2021 at 12:26AM by dilettantedebrah
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TIL about Snap-dragon, a game Victorians played around Christmas. Raisins would be put in a shallow bowl filled with brandy, and the brandy would be lit on fire. Then players had to extract the raisins without burning their hands and then eat the brandy-soaked raisins on fire.
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Submitted December 21, 2021 at 01:30AM by CanadianW
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TIL that Die Hard, much debated over whether or not it is a Christmas film, was first released to cinemas in the middle of July 1988. Its distributor, 20th Century Fox, had greenlit the screenplay in June 1987 because they needed a summer blockbuster for the following year.
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Submitted December 21, 2021 at 01:08AM by InmostJoy
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TIL Riding shotgun was a Wild West expression used for the person who rides next to the driver of a stagecoach for protection against bandits.
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Submitted December 21, 2021 at 02:32AM by Lostnomad1
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TIL that a large alliance of Native American tribes, the Timucua, consisted of over 200,000 people spread across 35 chiefdoms. They were probably the first Natives Ponce de Leon met in Florida. The nation was wiped out before 1800 and all evidence of religious items and art were burned by explorers.
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Submitted December 21, 2021 at 06:05AM by Squaragus_Asparagus
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TIL that according to the FCC, as of 2018, there are still 100,000 pay phones left in the United States.
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Submitted December 21, 2021 at 03:12AM by JLGoodwin1990
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TIL the term 'Piss Poor' referred to peasants so poor they survived by collecting their urine and sold it to the local tannery as part of the hide tanning process. 'Not having a pot to piss in' referred to those who couldn't even afford the pot in which to collect it.
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Submitted December 21, 2021 at 07:34AM by kalitarios
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TIL that a writer for the show Futurama who holds a PhD in applied mathematics created a real life mathematical theorem solely for use in the episode and to solve a plot conflict
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Submitted December 21, 2021 at 09:49AM by Conrad2781
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TIL an American ship is a tourist attraction in Pyongyang, North Korea. Captured by NK forces in 1968, visitors to USS Pueblo are allowed to board the ship and see its secret code room and crew artifacts. Pueblo is the only ship of the US Navy on the commissioned roster currently held captive
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Submitted December 21, 2021 at 09:05AM by Brutal_Deluxe_
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TIL that the production of the musical Love Never Dies was delayed because composer Andrew Lloyd Webber's six-month-old kitten Otto climbed onto Lloyd Webber's digital piano and managed to delete the entire score.
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Submitted December 21, 2021 at 08:01AM by ShockedCurve453
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TIL that Singapore Changi Airport was rated the World's Best Airport for 8 consecutive years, the first airport to achieve this feat. It contains an indoor slide, butterfly garden, movie theater and the world's tallest indoor waterfall.
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Submitted December 21, 2021 at 06:25AM by TouchMelodich
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TIL that every December 21, the inner chamber of Newgrange a prehistoric Irish monument that predates Stonehenge is illuminated for 18 minutes by the rising sun.
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Submitted December 21, 2021 at 12:57PM by InformalCommunity
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