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TIL Mett is german dish/spread of raw minced meat. It is sometimes presented as Mettigel, a raw meat hedgehog with onions spikes.
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Submitted May 22, 2023 at 03:17PM by jamescookenotthatone
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TIL in 2012 in Cebu, Philippines, after a 6.9 earthquake struck the city, someone shouted while finding their daughter whose name is "Chona Mae". This was misheard as "Tsunami" and eventually caused a mass panic.
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Submitted May 22, 2023 at 05:06PM by PotatoCatPi
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TIL that actor James Garner smoked marijuana his entire adult life. As quoted in his memoir: "I smoked marijuana for 50 years [...] After decades of research I've concluded that that marijuana should be legal and alcohol illegal."
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Submitted May 22, 2023 at 09:02PM by boogermanus
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TIL Robert Oppenheimer(born in 1904) didn't read newspapers and didn't keep up with the news at all until the 1930's. A native new yorker, he wasn't informed of the 1929 wall street crash until a friend told him, 6 months after the fact
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Submitted May 22, 2023 at 07:07PM by Ainsley-Sorsby
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TIL Pac-Man's colour choice was inspired by the yellow used in LEGO bricks
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Submitted May 22, 2023 at 05:40PM by planchetflaw
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TIL that lower class Germans are stereotyped as giving their children names that sound exotic in German, such as “Kevin.” Prejudice against people with such names is strong enough that the term “Kevinism” was coined to describe it.
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Submitted May 22, 2023 at 09:29PM by UralIveGotTonight
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TIL the Walt Disney Company neither owns nor operates Tokyo Disneyland
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Submitted May 22, 2023 at 09:29PM by 500owls
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TIL that in 1947 the town of Holt, Missouri (population 471) experienced the greatest 1 hour rainfall total ever observed worldwide: 12 inches of rain fell in just 42 minutes.
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Submitted May 23, 2023 at 01:38AM by JosiahWillardPibbs
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TIL No Kum-sok, who was a member of the Korean People's Army Air, fell out of romation while flying a Mig-18 and defected by landing in the wrong direction at Kimpo Air Base in South Korea. He also received today's equivalent of $1,012,811 for defecting with an operational aircraft.
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Submitted May 23, 2023 at 03:07AM by GolfingEngineer
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TIL In he aftermath of Ramsses III's assassination, 28 people were executed on the spot after found guilty of organising the plot, 10 people were forced to commit suicide, 4 people, including two of the judges had their nose and ears cut off and one court official was issued a stern verbal warning
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Submitted May 23, 2023 at 01:17AM by Ainsley-Sorsby
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TIL that Kai Ryssdal, host of NPR's 'Marketplace', was a US naval aviator and Pentagon staff officer attaining the rank of Lieutenant. Afterwards, he worked at a Borders bookstore for $7/hr
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Submitted May 23, 2023 at 07:51AM by rawkeye
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TIL In 2009, Masanobu Sato masturbated for 9 hours and 58 minutes at the 9th annual World Masturbate-a-thon, holding the record.
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Submitted May 23, 2023 at 10:33AM by lion_OBrian
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TIL Up to the First World War bear's grease was sold as a baldness cure and beauty product. The demand outstripped the supply so unscrupulous dealers would actually sell other animal fats, with some going as far as dressing a dead pig as a bear.
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Submitted May 23, 2023 at 01:54PM by jamescookenotthatone
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TIL of a Bolivian beverage called « Cocoroco » that boasts an incredibly high alcohol content of 96%.
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Submitted May 23, 2023 at 01:38PM by OneHundredForcer
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