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TIL about a painkiller present in human saliva called Opiorphin which is stronger than Morphine.
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Submitted April 29, 2023 at 04:22PM by tronephotoworks
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TIL Worcestershire sauce was created by accident when a less than desirable sauce was forgotten and left to ferment in a cellar
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Submitted April 29, 2023 at 07:18PM by twinkpuff
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TIL about Troy Hurtubise, a Canadian man who built multiple suits of armor to study grizzly bears up close in nature. He'd test these by having his friends hit him with 2x4s or drive trucks into him
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Submitted April 29, 2023 at 08:42PM by Murasaki-312
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TIL Ada Lovelace, daughter of poet Lord Byron, is considered by some to be the first computer programmer. She wrote notes on Charles Babbage's "Analytical Engine" that included an algorithm for calculating a sequence of numbers. Lovelace envisioned the machine creating art and music.
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Submitted April 29, 2023 at 10:54PM by theID10T
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TIL Bob Norris, the first Marlboro Man, was discovered after being seen in a photo with John Wayne. While Norris was the Marlboro Man for 12 years, he never smoked. He also told his kids not to smoke. After they asked why he was doing cigarette ads, he quit his job as the Marlboro Man the next day.
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Submitted April 29, 2023 at 11:55PM by dlkapt3
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TIL: About the "Tyrant King" Yeonsangun of Korea. Known as the worst tyrant in Korean history he launched 2 purges, seized hundreds of women to be "entertainers", and turned the royal university into a pleasure ground. His father, the previous king, was known as being liberal and kind.
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Submitted April 29, 2023 at 09:35PM by Flares117
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TIL former UFC heavyweight champ Bas Rutten was a sickly child, and badly bullied. After seeing "Enter the Dragon," he started training in martial arts. At age 14 he made a list of his childhood bullies and beat them up one by one.
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Submitted April 30, 2023 at 01:35AM by thinkofanamefast
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TIL that, prior to the arrival of the Mayflower, a thriving Patuxet village existed on the Massachusetts coast. An endemic wiped out 90 percent of the population, and the pilgrims converted the abandoned settlement into Plymouth Colony.
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Submitted April 30, 2023 at 12:33AM by WouldbeWanderer
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TIL there is an ancient Corinthian helmet in the Museum of Korea. Originally gifted to marathoner Son Gi-Jeong for winning the gold medal in the 1936 Olympics, he did not receive it until 1986. Son then donated it to the museum. It is Korea's only designated Western "National Treasure"
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Submitted April 29, 2023 at 11:27PM by Specialist_Check
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TIL of Solomon Islander Jacob C. Vouza. During WW2, he was captured by the Japanese during the Guadalcanal Campaign, tied to a tree, bayoneted, and left for dead. He then chewed through the ropes with his teeth and made his way to American lines warning them about an impending attack. He survived.
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Submitted April 30, 2023 at 05:03AM by HeartachetoHouston
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TIL that at $30 billion, Stan Lee has the highest career-film box office revenue gross of any other actor or actress in history, although his roles have all been brief cameos in Marvel films
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Submitted April 30, 2023 at 03:54AM by imaginexus
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TIL A division of the pharmaceutical company Bayer sold millions of dollars of blood-clotting medicine for hemophiliacs - medicine that carried a high risk of transmitting AIDS - to Asia and Latin America in the mid-1980s while selling a new, safer product in the West.
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Submitted April 30, 2023 at 04:47AM by ipresnel
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TIL that the famous dish: tikka masala - is British, not Indian and it was invented in the 70’s, not some cultural cuisine that’s been around for ages.
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Submitted April 30, 2023 at 07:42AM by Sad_Platform9466
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TIL that Ancient Babylonians did math in base 60 instead of base 10. That's why we have 60 seconds in a minute and 360 degrees in a circle.
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Submitted April 30, 2023 at 08:48AM by DorisHardye
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TIL that the famous "Here's Johnny" line from The Shining was copied from The Johnny Carson Show. Jack Nicholson improvised the line and Stanley Kubrick almost used a different take as he didn't get the reference, having been living in England
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Submitted April 30, 2023 at 05:01AM by gianthooverpig
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TIL: Kobe Bryant is mostly responsible for the fall of high top basketball sneakers. Raised in Italy, Kobe noticed that soccer players play in a fairly similar way to basketball player. Kobe told Nike point-blank, 'I want the lowest, lightest-weight basketball shoe ever’.
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Submitted April 30, 2023 at 03:28PM by DrPupipance
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