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TIL the average minor spends about 7 hours per week with their father, but about 15 hours a week on video games.
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Submitted January 16, 2023 at 01:09AM by AdSnoo9734
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TIL that there are no words in the English language that rhyme with month, orange, silver, or purple
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Submitted January 16, 2023 at 02:22AM by mikeyv683
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TIL that Joe Jackson would hold a belt as the Jackson 5 rehearsed, ready to strike his children if they stepped out of line. Michael Jackson was terrified of his father. “I have thrown up in his presence because when he comes in the room and this aura comes and my stomach starts hurting."
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Submitted January 16, 2023 at 04:36AM by lightblue_sky
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Today I learned that Brad Bird made "The Iron Giant" as an anti-violence message after his sister Susan was shot and killed by her estranged husband. His pitch for the movie was "What if a gun had a soul, and didn't want to be a gun?"
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Submitted January 16, 2023 at 06:51AM by strangealiendialect
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TIL Poachers have resorted to poisoning elephant water holes with cyanide to increase their efficiency. One poacher, Tony Maphosa, killed more than 100 elephants this way before being caught, after four years on the run
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Submitted January 16, 2023 at 08:40AM by okicho32
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TIL in 1965 U.S. Patent was issued for the "Blonsky Device" It was a centrifugal birthing table. A woman in labor was strapped to a high speed spinning table that would "gently force the baby out."
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Submitted January 16, 2023 at 02:14AM by triviafrenzy
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TIL Aristarchus of Samos in the 3rd Century BCE was the first to present the model of the Sun as the center of our Solar system and also placed the other known planets in correct order of distance from the sun. He also correctly surmised that stars were other far distant suns.
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Submitted January 16, 2023 at 07:48AM by CapnFancyPants
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TIL That China had a very significant role in helping the US defeat Japan in WWII, and that China suffered over eight million casualties.
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Submitted January 16, 2023 at 09:30AM by Vykktor
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TIL during the Glasgow Ice Cream Wars (a turf war between gangs selling drug and stolen goods from Ice Cream vans) the investigating Strathclyde Police got nickname of "Serious Chimes Squad", instead of Serious Crime Squad, because of the chiming music the vans would play.
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Submitted January 16, 2023 at 02:18PM by Status-Victory
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TIL Hirsoshima, Japan is one of the few places outside of the US that celebrates Martin Luther King Jr day, due to his outspoken views on nuclear nonproliferation and disarmament.
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Submitted January 16, 2023 at 03:40PM by 4241342413
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TIL Not only does the state of Alabama celebrate Robert E. Lee on MLK Day, they also have holidays for Confederate Memorial Day and Jefferson David's Birthday.
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Submitted January 16, 2023 at 10:18PM by mongo_man
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TIL of Georg Elser who spent a year planning the elaborate assassination of Hitler by hollowing out a pillar in a hall where he would speak and filling it with time bombs. Hitler left 13 minutes before the bombs went off; his flight was cancelled due to fog, so he started early to get a train.
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Submitted January 16, 2023 at 05:52PM by shnarfelberry
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TIL that in 2010, A crocodile stashed in a duffel bag got loose on an airplane, frightened passengers and led to a crash that killed 20 people on board
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Submitted January 16, 2023 at 02:43PM by randy88moss
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TIL actress Hattie McDaniel, the first ever African-American to win an Oscar, had one final wish when she was dying from cancer: to be buried in the Hollywood Forever Cemetery in LA. Her final wish was ultimately denied, as the cemetery had a strict all-white policy at the time.
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Submitted January 16, 2023 at 11:57PM by dennismarr
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TIL that soybeans are named after soy sauce, not the other way around. "Soy" comes from the Japanese "shoyu" (soy sauce), which is from a Chinese word meaning "thick, oily paste".
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Submitted January 16, 2023 at 11:37PM by vegatwyss
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