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TIL that History Channel had a show called "hunting hitler" that posited the idea that hitler escaped his bunker, and the cast of the show thought a picture of Moe Howard (one of the Three Stooges) was literally Hitler
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Submitted December 27, 2021 at 07:49AM by No_Spend_4397
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TIL that Giant Anteaters have killed people. There have been 2 documented attacks in the wild both resulted in the death of people hunting them. The anteaters slashed at the hunters with their long claws, hitting the femoral artery, making the victims bleed to death.
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Submitted December 27, 2021 at 05:23AM by AwesomeFrito
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TIL that in 1999 the Cape Canaveral area was allocated the telephone area code of 321 (i.e. launch countdown) as homage to its space flight and rocket launch history.
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Submitted December 27, 2021 at 09:23AM by Sansabina
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TIL unnoscripted programs AKA "reality shows" became much more prominent as a result of the 2007-08 Writer's Guild strike which affected much of the industry and halted many tv productions. Because it was profitabile under desperate circumstances, reality television was allowed to expand as a genre.
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Submitted December 27, 2021 at 11:29AM by f_GOD
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TIL that in Churchill, Canada, locals keep their car doors unlocked in order to provide other residents a quick escape, should they encounter a polar bear
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Submitted December 27, 2021 at 01:24PM by NorthNorthSalt
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TIL the identity of the Mona Lisa was only confirmed in 2005 when a researcher at Heidelberg University found a note in the margin of a book, handwritten by one of Leonardo´s contemporaries in 1503, saying "Brother Leonardo is working on a portrait of Lisa of Giocondo."
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Submitted December 27, 2021 at 03:53PM by forceofsmog
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TIL: scientists recently lowered the expected # of galaxies in the universe from 2 trillion to 100s of billions. Hubble Tele used math based on observation to say 2 trillion but now: “We simply don't see the light from two trillion galaxies”. New James Webb Space Telescope might give final answer.
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Submitted December 27, 2021 at 03:28PM by anon7935678
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TIL King Ferdinand VII of Spain had a huge member, so much in fact that it's rumored that one of his wives died of a hemorrhage derived from having sex with the monarch.
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Submitted December 27, 2021 at 12:37PM by Tactical_Contact
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TIL Online Trolls Actually Just Assholes All the Time, Study Finds. The internet just gives them a “megaphone to announce their opinions.”
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Submitted December 27, 2021 at 10:32PM by Additional_List_3369
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TIL that Henri Paul, Princess Diana's driver, was three times over the legal drink drive limit on the night of her death, and was using both anti-depressants and anti-psychotics
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Submitted December 27, 2021 at 06:59PM by Rob-With-One-B
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TIL in 1869, George Hull hired people to make a stone statue of a man, bury it, then later pretend to discover an ancient giant. The hoax was so lucrative that P.T. Barnum offered $50,000. The owner declined. Barnum had a replica made and said he had the real giant and the owner had the fake.
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Submitted December 27, 2021 at 10:40PM by MusicSole
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TIL It took more than 70 years to complete the first edition of the Oxford English Dictionary. Originally, the Philological Society predicted that the dictionary would take about 10 years to complete. Twenty-seven years later, the editors had successfully reached the word ant.
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Submitted December 27, 2021 at 09:42PM by haddock420
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TIL about “The Harris’s List”, a catalogue from the 1700’s of all the prostitutes in London during that period, where you could find any sex workers’ address, price, age, skills, and it would rate their performance and describe their appearance. It was published annually for decades
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Submitted December 28, 2021 at 12:39AM by ywh_ss
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TIL of Clarence Earl Gideon, who from his prison cell in 1962 wrote and mailed a writ of certiorari to the US Supreme Court. The decision from the resulting case required U.S. states to provide attorneys to criminal defendants who are unable to afford their own, per the 6th and 14th amendments.
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Submitted December 28, 2021 at 04:18AM by The_Techsan
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TIL of "Henry's Pocket", a name for the little extra flap on the side of your dog's/cat's ear. A wide range of mammals have it, and is likely an inheritance from a common ancestor. They are believed to assist in hearing, but little is understood of their function.
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Submitted December 28, 2021 at 02:26AM by EverythingBranches
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TIL David Spade didn’t attend his best friend Chris Farley’s funeral. This fuelled speculation that there was some falling out with Farley prior to his death. However, years later Spade revealed that his absence from the funeral was because he would have found it too emotionally difficult.
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Submitted December 28, 2021 at 06:24AM by Str33twise84
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