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TIL almost no palm trees are native to Southern California. They were used as a marketing ploy to transform Los Angeles for a cow town to “semi-tropical”
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Submitted December 11, 2022 at 11:28PM by sandygirlie
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TIL that Samaritanism is a small Abrahamic religion that only had 820 followers as of 2019
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Submitted December 11, 2022 at 09:50PM by IAmDavidGurney
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TIL Denmark and Sweden holds the world record for most wars fought between two countries, with around 30 wars fought since the 15th century.
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Submitted December 11, 2022 at 11:58PM by Wadsymule
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TIL that before trees took over the earth the land was covered with Prototaxites, a fungus that became extinct more than 350 million years ago and is believed to have reached almost 9m high and 1.37m in diameter.
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Submitted December 12, 2022 at 03:05AM by lev_lafayette
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TIL a castle built over 800 years ago was briefly occupied by medieval crusaders. A latrine containing 30 years worth of castle excrement revealed that the folks there were malnourished & infested with worms. The worms associated with eating unwashed vegetables fertilized with human feces
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Submitted December 12, 2022 at 06:37AM by RainManToothpicks
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TIL of former Governor's Councilor Herbert Connolly, who in 1988 arrived to the polls too late to cast a ballot for himself and lost by a single vote.
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Submitted December 12, 2022 at 03:51AM by motownmods
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TIL King Frederick II took 5 babies from their families and deprived them of being talked to or even played with to figure out what language Adam and Eve spoke in the garden of Eden. He thought it was either Greek, Latin, Arabic, or Hebrew.
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Submitted December 12, 2022 at 01:22PM by high_on_onions
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TIL that Xmas is has historically been used as far back as the 16th century and the X is a Greek substitution for their letter χ pronounced “chi” in place of the first character of the Greek for Christ - Χριστός
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Submitted December 12, 2022 at 01:55PM by grimizen
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TIL Alvin and the Chipmunks, were created by novelty singer Ross Bagdasarian, performing as Dave Seville. Asked to create another novelty song, he invented the Chipmunks, naming them after record company executives. All three were voiced by Bagdasarian, later his son, and have won 5 Grammys.
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Submitted December 12, 2022 at 03:51PM by marmorset
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TIL that the earliest sunset of the year has already happened in nearly all of the United States, even though the winter solstice is yet to come
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Submitted December 12, 2022 at 03:06PM by huseddit
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TIL When Enrico Fermi first split an atom in 1934, it was completely by accident. He was actually trying to create new elements by hitting uranium with neutrons. It was only in 1938 that other scientists figured out what Fermi did.
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Submitted December 12, 2022 at 05:45PM by UndyingCorn
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TIL Slaves in ancient Rome would often sleep on the same bedroom as their masters, or right outside. The lack of privacy was such that Romans would joke about slaves having their ears glued to the door and masturbating to their masters having sex
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Submitted December 12, 2022 at 04:41PM by Ainsley-Sorsby
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TIL The most successful submarine captain of all time, was Lothar von Arnauld de la Perière. He only fired 74 torpedos, with 39 hits, but during his career sank 194 ships, totalling 453,000 tonnes.
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Submitted December 12, 2022 at 05:54PM by Standard-Assist-5793
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TIL Anthony Daniels (b. 1946) is the only actor to have either appeared in or been involved with all nine films in the Star Wars series. (C-3PO)
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Submitted December 12, 2022 at 07:49PM by OccludedFug
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TIL that during his retirement, George Washington was so intent on staying within 25 miles of his Mount Vernon Estate that he declined to attend the wedding of his nephew Lawrence Augustine Washington.
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Submitted December 12, 2022 at 07:44PM by FranklinDRoosevelt32
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TIL President Gerald Ford once tried to eat a tamale without taking off the corn husk while campaigning
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Submitted December 12, 2022 at 09:22PM by tolifotofofer
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TIL the American artist Sarah Goodridge painted a miniature self-portrait of her breasts which she gave to her secret lover Daniel Webster in 1828, not long after his wife's death.
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Submitted December 12, 2022 at 11:40PM by XraPolar
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TIL on the morning of July 26, 1184, Henry VI held court at the Petersberg Citadel. The weight of the assembled nobles caused the second story floor of the building to collapse. Most of the nobles fell into the latrine cesspit below the ground floor, where about 60 of them drowned in liquid shit.
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Submitted December 13, 2022 at 12:30AM by The_Critical_Cynic
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