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TIL the U.S. largest state: Alaska, is bigger than California, Texas, and Montana combined, and over 2500 miles from east to west.
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Submitted March 21, 2023 at 06:32PM by ryraps5892
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TIL that on dry, cloudless nights in the desert, water can freeze at temperatures as high as 41 degrees Fahrenheit, 5 Celsius. This is due to a process referred to as or "Night Sky Cooling" or "Radiative Cooling", and allowed desert dwellers to regularly make ice more than 2000 years ago.
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Submitted March 21, 2023 at 08:55PM by AspireAgain
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TIL why all clocks go clockwise. In Medieval times, the sun-dials used as clocks in Northern Hemisphere used to trace clockwise. Early timepieces were made to mimic this motion. This, however, became such a norm that we started describing rotational motion in 2D as "clock"wise and counter"clock"wise
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Submitted March 21, 2023 at 07:40PM by enormityop
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TIL the Army of the United States is not the same as the US Army. The Army of the US is one of four components, also including the Regular Army, the Army Reserve and the National Guard. If you're drafted you go into the Army of the US, but it's been dormant since 1973.
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Submitted March 21, 2023 at 11:48PM by HeavyMetalOverbite
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TIL of Ettore Majorana, an Italian theoretical physicist who predicted the existence of the neutron and neutrino before disappearing without a trace in 1938
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Submitted March 22, 2023 at 03:47AM by UWCG
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TIL Steve Urkel was intended to be a one-off character on the sitcom Family Matters. Jaleel White (Urkel), got into an altercation with Jo Marie Payton (Harriet), causing Jo Marie to leave the show, which ended after that season.
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Submitted March 22, 2023 at 03:42AM by sgrams04
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TIL that The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King is the only film to get more than 10 Oscar nominations (11, to be precise) and won all.
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Submitted March 22, 2023 at 05:19AM by nesatzuke
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TIL whale milk is the consistency of toothpaste and they have inverted nipples inside mammary slits. When the calf nudges the slits, the mother pokes out her nipple and squirts the milk into baby’s mouth.
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Submitted March 22, 2023 at 05:50AM by bb_cowgirl
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TIL Judge Judy was, between her lawyer and TV salaries, for a while the highest paid TV star - and authored a book called Don't Pee on My Leg and Tell Me It's Raining
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Submitted March 22, 2023 at 12:00AM by lyzabth
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TIL Yellow tennis balls were invented by David Attenborough. In 1967 when he was controller of BBC2, he had the job of introducing colour TV and suggested switching from white to a fluorescent yellow ball for easier visibility
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Submitted March 22, 2023 at 01:33PM by stan-stanman
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TIL that Fried Chicken was an expression first recorded in the 1830s, and frequently appears in American cookbooks of the 1860s and 1870s. Scottish frying techniques and African seasoning techniques were used together in the American South, and became increasingly popular after the Civil War.
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Submitted March 22, 2023 at 02:56PM by jdward01
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TIL Burt Ward once claimed that his penis was so big that ABC prescribed him penis-shrinking pills.
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Submitted March 22, 2023 at 05:17PM by RealTheAsh
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TIL that the Honeydew was introduced to China by American Vice President Henry A. Wallace, who donated melon seeds to the locals while visiting in the 1940s. As a result of Wallace's introduction of the crop, in China the melon is sometimes called "the Wallace".
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Submitted March 22, 2023 at 03:25PM by PresLyndonBJohnson36
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TIL that Al Pacino boycotted the 45th academy awards in 1973, because despite having more screen time than Marlon Brando, he was nominated for best supporting actor and not best actor.
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Submitted March 22, 2023 at 08:51AM by VengefulMight
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TIL that on April 1st, 1906, American newspapers ran prank articles reporting that Chicago had been "invaded by hordes of prehistoric monsters dealing death and destruction", illustrated with doctored photos showing dinosaurs attacking the Windy City.
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Submitted March 22, 2023 at 04:41PM by TJ_Fox
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TIL that on 9/11 United Airlines Flight 175 had a near midair collision with Delta Air Lines Flight 2315 flying from Hartford to Tampa, reportedly missing the plane by only 200 feet (60 m)
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Submitted March 22, 2023 at 08:12PM by oohe
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TIL the world's longest constitution was the Constitution of Alabama from 1901-2022. At 388,882 words, it was 51 times longer than the U.S. Constitution and 12 times longer than the average U.S. state constitution.
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Submitted March 22, 2023 at 08:33PM by Jugales
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