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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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TIL in 2018, the 120-resident village of Acquetico in Italy installed speed cameras after being fed up with people speeding through it. In next 2 weeks, it recorded 58,500 speeding infractions.
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Submitted May 16, 2023 at 11:28PM by AkagisWhiteComet
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TIL Graduate student Jocelyn Bell Burnell and her supervisor, Antony Hewish, built a radio telescope to observe quasars in 1967. Their discovery won the 1974 Nobel Prize – for Hewish. 50 years later, Burnell was awarded $3 Million in the Special Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics
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Submitted May 16, 2023 at 11:02PM by einstein_bern
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TIL 'Taco Tuesday' has been a registered trademark since 1989 by a Wyoming based fast-food company named Taco John's and they have defended against other establishments using the phrase.
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Submitted May 17, 2023 at 01:27AM by Zhongquing
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TIL the FAA predicted that if kids under 2 years old were required to have their own seats on planes, at least 60 kids would die in car accidents for every kid saved because families that couldn't afford extra plane tickets would drive instead.
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Submitted May 17, 2023 at 05:02AM by RollingNightSky
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TIL the Kootenai Indian Tribe of Idaho and Montana harvests millions of dollars of sturgeon caviar a year, but put all the eggs back in the rivers. They are desperately try to save the shrinking white sturgeon population which they believe are “sacred messengers.”
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Submitted May 17, 2023 at 07:47AM by triviafrenzy
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TIL almost 100 years before railroads, England’s Bridgewater Canal made it so one horse could pull 30 tons of coal, dropping the fuel price in half. It was so successful that it created a 1770’s “canal mania” starting the Industrial Revolution.
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Submitted May 17, 2023 at 07:05AM by triviafrenzy
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TIL that just before Laika went into space, one of the scientists using her for testing brought her home to play with his children. Knowing that she would not survive her journey
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Submitted May 17, 2023 at 10:09AM by Alaskan_Tsar
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TIL that the average human body temperature has actually fallen from 98.6F (37C) in 1860, to 97.5F (36.4C) in 2017
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Submitted May 17, 2023 at 09:22AM by black_rose_
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TIL after the massive success of his #1 hit "Somebody That I Used to Know", Gotye stopped recording solo music, went back to his old band and hasn't released a song under the Gotye name ever since
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Submitted May 17, 2023 at 06:04PM by afgangazy
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TIL Tipping in restaurants is originally a European custom that used to be considered a "Deeply Un-American" practice, stemming from racial and political issues, long before becoming entrenched in American life more than any other country.
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Submitted May 17, 2023 at 05:13PM by Norbert_F_Beaver
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TIL in 2002 the Pentagon ran a war game to simulate war with Iran. Marines general Paul Van Riper, playing the defender, sank 19 U.S. ships in 5-10 minutes, including a carrier, several cruisers, and five amphibious ships. He quit the game in disgust after he was ordered to play fair
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Submitted May 17, 2023 at 08:02PM by Brutal_Deluxe_
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TIL the Black Death contributed greatly to the rise of the British Pub and pub culture. Thanks to the plague, scarcity of labor greatly improved the standard of living for peasants, who in turn spent their extra money on beer.
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Submitted May 17, 2023 at 06:14PM by TheMadhopper
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TIL of Nakahama Manjirō, a 14-year-old fisherman who was shipwrecked on an island with four friends. They were rescued by an American whaleship, who took them to Honolulu, where his friends stayed. Manjirō continued on to Massachusetts and become the first Japanese person to land on mainland USA.
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Submitted May 17, 2023 at 06:36PM by InmostJoy
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TIL the search and discovery of the Titanic was only allowed as to cover for searching for 2 US nuclear submarines that sunk in the 60s
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Submitted May 18, 2023 at 12:20AM by Arb0k
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