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TIL that out of 400-500 species of shark, the Sand Tiger Shark is the only one known to fart
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Submitted May 15, 2023 at 08:09PM by d0ggzilla
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TIL a California woman filed a class-action lawsuit against Ferrero (maker of Nutella) after she was shocked to discover it wasn't healthy and that the chocolate spread she was feeding her 4 year-old daughter was full of sugar and fat. Ferrero lost and paid $3M over false nutritional claims
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Submitted May 15, 2023 at 11:16PM by ahm713
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TIL a liquor store in Oklahoma City installed a machine gun tower on the roof of the store after being bombed by the mafia multiple times
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Submitted May 15, 2023 at 10:02PM by VapeThisBro
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TIL that despite living under Jim Crow, Percy Julian was a doctor who pioneered the drug industry. After he developed the chemical synthesis of hormones like testosterone & progesterone, he became the first African American chemist inducted into the National Academy of Sciences.
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Submitted May 15, 2023 at 11:44PM by Jjinkss
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TIL of a reporter who commissioned a paper from an academic ghostwriting agency to expose the "black market" for college assignments. Instead, the paper got an A-.
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Submitted May 16, 2023 at 12:12AM by IamDeleuzienne
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TIL the word for father is "mama" in most of the western Australian Aboriginal languages. The word for mother is also "papa" in a subset of these languages.
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Submitted May 15, 2023 at 11:11PM by admiralturtleship
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TIL in 2001, Mattel made a vibrating Harry Potter broomstick that led to many questionable Amazon user reviews. They discontinued the toy after adult stores in Times Square started selling them for twice their original retail price
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Submitted May 16, 2023 at 05:00AM by SappyGilmore
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TIL during the Vietnam War, the U.S. conducted Operation Popeye which involved a "cloud-seeding" mission to stimulate clouds in Vietnam and extend the monsoon season. It was later declassified in 1974, and the United States' involvement in this operation became public knowledge
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Submitted May 16, 2023 at 01:28AM by insecurePoultry259
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TIL actor Stephen Baldwin has a tattoo of the initials HM for Hannah Montana. He got it after making a pact with Miley Cyrus that he could cameo on the show if he did it. He showed it to Cyrus, but he was never given the opportunity to cameo and has since said that he regrets the tattoo.
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Submitted May 16, 2023 at 07:54AM by sexpressed
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TIL there are €0 bill/banknotes. They do not have monetary value like regular euros but are instead used as souvenirs. They’re intended to promote tourism and they each have unique designs pertaining to specific landmarks or events in European countries.
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Submitted May 16, 2023 at 04:54AM by FelicityFizz
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TIL that the most powerful earthquake ever recorded in the continental US occurred in New Madrid, MO, in 1812. It was so violent that the shaking was felt in New York, made church bells ring in South Carolina, and made part of the Mississippi River run backwards.
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Submitted May 16, 2023 at 02:54PM by JosiahWillardPibbs
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TIL: Castrati were singers who were castrated before puberty to develop a unique voice for singing. They were primarily in church choirs and operas. Italian operas without one would be doomed to fail. The Pope tried to ban them in 1748, but failed as it would drastically reduce church attendance.
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Submitted May 16, 2023 at 04:33PM by Flares117
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TIL The former Confederate President Jefferson Davis met a crowd of 7,000 cheering people when he came to Montreal, Canada. Montreal had been a safe haven for Confederates during the Civil War and some Canadians had supported the Confederacy out of fear the Union might invade Canada.
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Submitted May 16, 2023 at 01:59PM by jamescookenotthatone
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TIL The Sun is the most perfectly round natural object known in the universe
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Submitted May 16, 2023 at 07:05PM by DoubleCupOfDrano
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TIL that Black Widow spiders are often hunted down and killed by their Brown Widow cousins when in the same territory.
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Submitted May 16, 2023 at 08:04PM by TheMadhopper
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TIL while writing the 1971 song "Ain't No Sunshine", Bill Withers had originally intended to write more lyrics instead of repeating the phrase "I know" 26 times, but then followed the advice of the other musicians to leave it that way. Withers said: "When they said to leave it like that, I left it."
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Submitted May 16, 2023 at 09:04PM by waitingforthesun92
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TIL The peach crayon color used to be called Flesh until 1962
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Submitted May 16, 2023 at 04:26PM by MrPractical1
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