TIL Limp Bizkit was the last band to play atop the World Trade Center. September 2000.
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Headbangerz Club
The Bizarre Letter Limp Bizkit Received A Day Before The 9/11 WTC Attacks — Headbangerz Club
It’s been 19 years since the World Trade Center attacks. On September 11, 2001, two passenger planes crashed, with a few minutes interval at the twin towers of the World Trade Center in New York.
TIL A Mother discovers her son's bride is her long-lost DAUGHTER after she spots a birthmark on their wedding day (but the marriage goes ahead anyway because the groom had been adopted)
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Submitted April 03, 2023 at 08:45PM by Algrinder
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Yahoo News
Woman Discovers Her Son's Bride is Her Long Lost Daughter
A woman in eastern China had the shock of her life when she found out that her son was marrying her long-lost daughter. The reunion occurred right at the would-be spouses' wedding in Suzhou, Jiangsu province on March 31, according to Sohu News. The shocking…
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TIL of Khalid bin Mohsen Shaari, a Saudi who was the heaviest man alive at 1,340 lb. When Saudi King Abdullah heard of this, Khalid was ordered to a medical center in Riyadh. In about four years, Khalid would weigh 150 lb.
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Submitted April 03, 2023 at 05:00PM by R4G
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Wikipedia
Khalid bin Mohsen Shaari
Saudi Arabian man who was the heaviest living person in 2013
TIL That following his NASA career, Homer Hickam, known for the movie October Sky, about his teenage exploration of rocketry, became a successful dinosaur hunter, and has discovered, or has helped to discover, 5 of the 40 fossilized T-Rex skeletons ever found.
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Submitted April 03, 2023 at 06:58PM by acousticwonder
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The Tuscaloosa News
Homer Hickam has passion for writing and and dinosaur hunting
Huntsville author Homer Hickam is a passionate writer and he and a friend have found five of the 40 T-rex skeletons that have ever been found.
TIL that before the world's first nuclear explosion, the chance that the earth would be vaporized by the explosion was estimated at "slightly less than 3 in 1,000,000".
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Submitted April 03, 2023 at 09:05PM by sbennett21
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TIL Bananas are curved because they grow against the pull of gravity. They begin growing downwards, but as they get larger, they grow upwards to catch more sun, resulting in a curved shape.
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Submitted April 03, 2023 at 10:45PM by Imbiberr
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Chiquita
Healthy snacks that are curvy and proud! | Chiquita
The benefits of bananas are amazing. And now you can get your favorite banana brand as organic too. Truly the best healthy snacks...
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TIL 9/11 Cost the US economy a total of $110 to $120 Billion dollars + an incalculable loss to the global economy
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Submitted April 03, 2023 at 10:22PM by thegreatmanproject
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www.iags.org
The Cost of September 11
How much did the September 11 terrorist attack cost America?
TIL a scientist hired his family to refine radium in their basement for 20 years, with the waste buried in the backyard. The property was declared a Superfund site and cost $70M to clean up. His body was exhumed for testing and had the largest amount of radioactive material ever detected in a human.
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Submitted April 04, 2023 at 01:58AM by Miamime
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The Ancient and Esoteric Order of the Jackalope
The Hot House [Dr. Dicran Hadjy Kabakjian]
Lots of people have dabbled with strange home businesses -- but only one of them set up a radium refining facility in the basement of his suburban duplex.
TIL the average desk-bound employee spends 28 per cent of their professional lives reading and responding to e-mails
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Submitted April 04, 2023 at 02:37AM by Ok_Copy5217
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McKinsey & Company
The social economy: Unlocking value and productivity through social technologies
The most powerful applications of social technologies in the global economy are largely untapped. By using social technologies, companies can raise the productivity of knowledge workers by 20 to 25 percent.
TIL A 30 year-old woman from New Zealand died in 2013 due to cardiac arrhythmia that was linked to her habit of drinking up to 2.6 gallons of Coca-Cola daily.
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Submitted April 04, 2023 at 04:27AM by RememberedOlBuddy
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BBC News
Coca-Cola drinking 'linked to New Zealander's death'
Drinking large quantities of Coca-Cola was a "substantial factor" in the death of a 30-year-old woman in New Zealand, a coroner says.
TIL - The European polecat occasionally cripples its prey by piercing its brains with its teeth and stores it, still living, in its burrow for future consumption.
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Submitted April 04, 2023 at 05:30AM by Verbal__Kint
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Wikipedia
European polecat
species of mustelid
TIL in 1919 Yankees baseball player Ping Bodie had a spaghetti eating contest with Percy the ostrich and won after Percy passed out after eating 11 plates of spaghetti.
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Submitted April 04, 2023 at 04:57AM by Rusty_Pancake
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MLB.com
A Yankee, an ostrich and 22 plates of pasta
Ping Bodie was a pretty good hitter during his nine-year career. He hit 30 homers during one of his Minor League seasons with the San Francisco Seals, he batted .289 or higher in four out of his nine seasons in the Majors and his nickname "Ping" (his real…
TIL Dennis Ritchie, who invented the C programming language, co-created the Unix operating system, and is largely regarded as influencing a part of every software system we use on a daily basis, died 1 week after Steve Jobs. Due to this, his death was largely overshadowed and ignored.
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Wikipedia
Dennis Ritchie
American computer scientist
TIL that almost 3% of films released in the 1960s included depictions of people sinking in quicksand, clay or mud
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Submitted April 04, 2023 at 02:47PM by rasputinny
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Quicksand
colloid hydrogel consisting of fine granular material, clay, and water
TIL that, in 2022, a man died in a single vehicle car accident when the knife he was using to mix protein powder while driving was propelled into his neck by the force of his deployed air bag.
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Submitted April 04, 2023 at 01:54PM by TostinoKyoto
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Times of San Diego
Man with Knife Wound Dies in Rancho Bernardo After Lexus Crashes into Parked Vehicle
A young man who appeared to be handling a knife while driving died early Sunday after his 2000 Lexus crashed into a parked vehicle on Rancho Bernardo Road.
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TIL about Charles Mayers a seaman who survived the Halifax explosion. The explosion hurled him several hundred metres in the air and he landed naked on a hill a mile away.
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Submitted April 04, 2023 at 01:10PM by Lingering_Dorkness
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Legion Magazine
Halifax Explosion
A collision between two ships in Halifax Harbour in 1917 set off an explosion unrivalled until the atomic bomb. An entire neighbourhood was destroyed, thousands killed and injured, thousands more left homeless. Army and navy personnel worked shoulder-to-shoulder…
TIL about Rebecca Sharrock, a 27-year-old from Australia who has Highly Superior Autobiographical Memory (HSAM), a rare syndrome that allows her to recall every single detail of her life on any given date.
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Submitted April 04, 2023 at 01:57PM by KodyBerns99
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Bbc
The woman who can’t forget
Some people can remember every single event in their life – what’s it like?
TIL that a Man found $7.5 Million in a Storage Unit he bought for just $500 from 'Storage Wars' star Dan Dotson
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Submitted April 04, 2023 at 03:12PM by racc15
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Insider
A man bought a storage unit for $500 from 'Storage Wars' star Dan Dotson, and found $7.5 million hidden in a safe inside
"Storage Wars" star Dan Dotson sold a man a storage unit for $500. The unit contained a safe with more than $7.5 million.
TIL that in 2017, a 28-year-old Wichita resident was shot and killed in a hoax swatting due to a online argument surrounding a $1.50 wager in Call of Duty. The victim was not part of the argument and was simply living at the address one of the parties falsely claimed as theirs.
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Submitted April 04, 2023 at 03:45PM by steffsh
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Wikipedia
2017 Wichita swatting
killing in the United States
TIL that in the United States, crayfish are often referred to as crawfish, crawdads, fiddlers, crawdaddies, or mudbugs. As of 2018, 93% of crawfish farms in the US were located in Louisiana. In 1987, Louisiana produced 90% of the crayfish harvested in the world, 70% of which were consumed locally.
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Submitted April 04, 2023 at 04:52PM by jdward01
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Wikipedia
Crayfish as food
small crustaceans in human cuisines
TIL that in year 2000, 41 million dollars was spent to promote the new Sacagawea golden dollar. Television ads consisted of the head of George Washington superimposed upon a body, voiced by actor Michael Keaton, discussing the merits of the new dollar coin. The coin ended up being a failure.
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Submitted April 04, 2023 at 07:44PM by ipresnel
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Wikipedia
Sacagawea dollar
US 1 dollar coin minted since 2000