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TIL that the Michigan DOT has names for every one of their snowplows along with mounted cameras and a tracking map so you can track your favorite plow as the season progresses
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Submitted January 11, 2022 at 03:34PM by crewchief535
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TIL of Henry Shrapnel (1761–1842) whose name entered the English language as the inventor of the shrapnel shell. In 1784 he invented "spherical case" ammunition: a hollow cannonball filled with lead shot that burst in mid-air. It lent the term shrapnel to to fragmentation in general ever since.
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Submitted January 11, 2022 at 02:47PM by BobMcCully
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TIL: The Iroquois Confederacy, founded by the Great Peacemaker in 1142, is often considered the oldest living participatory democracy. In 1988 the US Senate paid tribute to it stating that its republic and democratic principles were influenced by the Iroquois Confederacy's political system.
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Submitted January 11, 2022 at 05:24PM by Radio-Dry
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TIL - A small group of German soldiers were forgotten on a remote British island, and only surrendered three weeks after the war had ended
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Submitted January 11, 2022 at 04:11PM by epou
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TIL Leonardo Da Vinci saved 13,000+ pages of notes and drawings on anatomy, physiology, engineering, mechanics, geometry, mathematics, bird flight, flying machines, botany, proportions, topology, weaponry, musical instruments, art, and more, all in mirrored shorthand written from right to left.
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Submitted January 11, 2022 at 05:48PM by wjbc
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TIL Bao Xishun, one of the world's tallest living men, had once assisted veterinarians in treating two unwell dolphins by using his long arms to reach into their stomachs to remove plastic shards.
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Submitted January 11, 2022 at 06:01PM by Salsal_Azar
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TIL of a Danish Bog Army. Hundreds of 2000-year old warrior skeletons have resurfaced from a bog, suggesting a violet event occurred nearby.
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Submitted January 11, 2022 at 06:10PM by JBColter
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TIL the longest-running video game series is, by far: The Oregon Trail. First published in 1971 by the Minnesota Educational Computing Consortium, it beats out the next series (Pac-Man) by almost a decade.
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Submitted January 11, 2022 at 06:36PM by Pfeffer_Prinz
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TIL that the Subway Sandwich rolls in the US are so sweet that Ireland ruled them too sugary to be considered bread.
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Submitted January 11, 2022 at 09:19PM by testicle12
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TIL Superman is going into the public domain in 2033. Along with other story elements such as Lois Lane and Metropolis. But you would have to wait until 2044 to have him use heat vison.
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Submitted January 11, 2022 at 08:59PM by ChaseChaserChased
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TIL a bridge in Ireland that was designed to swing open for ships couldn't be opened for four years because someone lost the remote control
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Submitted January 11, 2022 at 11:56PM by Wrexis
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TIL about Charles Boycott. He rented out land to farmers during the 20th century. Many farmers couldn't afford to pay him, so many farmers were evicted. Due to this, there were boycotts against him. Those boycotts gave rise to the verb "boycott", named after the person. The word never existed before
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Submitted January 11, 2022 at 10:12PM by bb-wa
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TIL Legendary mathematician Kurt Gödel in his later years became obsessed with the idea that someone was trying to poison him, thus he would only eat food prepared by his wife. After she fell ill and as she was hospistalised, Gödel completely stopped eating and literally starved himself to death
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Submitted January 11, 2022 at 10:12PM by Ainsley-Sorsby
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TIL Russian hipsters in the 1950's, called the stilyagi, used discarded X-Rays to copy and distribute Western records that managed to make it into the Soviet Union. It was called bone music.
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Submitted January 12, 2022 at 02:15AM by polishednerd
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TIL when given the choice between cocaine or artificial sweetener, a majority of rats choose the sweetener (saccharin) even if they already developed a dependence to cocaine
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Submitted January 12, 2022 at 02:42AM by wizardbase
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TIL that a man from Australia survived a car accident, buys a lottery ticket shortly after 15 days in a coma and wins. The news finds out, asks him to reenact the ticket purchase, he wins a larger amount than the first on live TV.
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Submitted January 12, 2022 at 05:39AM by bindukwe
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TIL Tardigrades reproduce by the male getting sucked off by the female over the course of an hour
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Submitted January 12, 2022 at 05:09AM by hudsonhawk1
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TIL That for the 2004 film 'Miracle' about the 1980 US Olympic Men's Hockey team win over the Russians Al Michaels' recreated the play by play for the final game with the exception of the last thirty seconds (which used the original audio) because he felt he couldn't recreate the original emotion.
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Submitted January 12, 2022 at 04:25AM by GentPc
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TIL in 1926 a U.S. Marine was crowned King of the Haitian island of Gonâve, the first and only American to become a ruling monarch. His reign ended when the Marines transferred him to his next duty station.
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Submitted January 12, 2022 at 04:56AM by NavyJack
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TIL that in 1670, against a judge's instructions, a jury refused to find two men guilty. The judge held the jury in contempt; locked them up overnight without food, water or heat; and fined them. On appeal, the Chief Justice ruled that a jury could not be punished for returning the wrong verdict.
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Submitted January 12, 2022 at 06:58AM by WouldbeWanderer
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