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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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Lego
How PAC-MAN was inspired by the yellow color of LEGO® bricks
Our LEGO® designer explains how we turned the iconic 80s arcade game into a LEGO set
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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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Kevinismus
German prejudice against children with unusual names
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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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Tokyo Disneyland
theme park in Japan, owned by The Oriental Land Company
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TIL Ray Bradbury sold Fahrenheit 451 to Hugh Hefner in 1953. It was published in issues 2, 3, and 4 of Playboy.
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Submitted May 22, 2023 at 10:51PM by Night_Runner
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Fahrenheit 451 - Ray Bradbury
Fahrenheit 451 is widely regarded as the best of Ray Bradbury's works. It's set in an unspecified city (probably somewhere in the American mid-West) at an unspecified time in the future (probably sometime after 1960). The story follows a fireman, Guy Montag…
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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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Holt, Missouri
city in Missouri, USA
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TIL: Apples are only in season between Sept and Nov but Controlled Atmosphere Storage has allowed us to consume apples all year round.
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Submitted May 22, 2023 at 11:58PM by dubiouscode
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Celebrating the Apple – All Year Round!
October is National Apple Month! Learn about how farmers ensure apples make it from their farms to our homes all year round with Controlled Atmosphere Storage. Post authored by Sierra Bulson.
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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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No Kum-sok
North Korean Air Force officer
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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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Judicial Papyrus of Turin
12th-century BCE ancient Egyptian record
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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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Kai Ryssdal
Radio host, United States Navy officer
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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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Edging (sexual practice)
sexual technique
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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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Bear's grease
body fat from bears, used for many applications and once thought to be a treatment for hair loss
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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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Cocoroco
alcoholic beverage from Bolivia
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TIL roughly half of the Dutch workforce works part-time.
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Submitted May 23, 2023 at 07:49AM by TheIrelephant
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Who are most likely to work part-time? - The Netherlands in numbers 2022 | CBS
Who are most likely to work part-time? - The Netherlands in numbers 2022
In 2021, nearly half of the working population had a part-time job. Retail checkout assistants, carers and pharmacy assistants were the most likely not to have full-time jobs.
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TIL in Waco Texas, 1916, a black 17 year old was severely mutilated and burned alive while 10-15,000 people watched and cheered. One man held his young son on his shoulder so he could see.
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Submitted May 23, 2023 at 06:58PM by Cheensly
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Lynching In Texas
The Lynching of Jesse Washington | Lynching In Texas
This website represents an ongoing effort to document the lynchings that occurred in Texas between 1882 and 1945. At present, our database includes more than 600 lynchings that were cataloged by the Chicago Tribune (1882-1888), the National Association for…
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TIL the navigator Henry Hudson was cast adrift by mutineers, along with his son and six others in 1611, in Hudson Bay. They were never seen again.
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Submitted May 23, 2023 at 05:25PM by jacknunn
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Biography – HUDSON, HENRY – Volume I (1000-1700) – Dictionary of Canadian Biography
HUDSON, HENRY, English navigator and discoverer, and, in a sense, a founding father of both New York City and the Hudson’s Bay Company; fl. 1607–11.
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TIL that there is enough gold in the oceans to give each person on Earth about 9 pounds of the metal.
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Submitted May 23, 2023 at 06:21PM by SniperGecko
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NOAA estimates that there is 20 million tons of gold in the ocean water
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TIL that in 1984 a group of men crossed the ocean Atlantic, in a 13.6-meter (45-foot) by 5.8-meter rudderless log raft with a single sail
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Submitted May 23, 2023 at 04:00PM by agoatwithopinion
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Atlantis Expedition: The trans-oceanic raft voyage that defied the impossible - La Prensa Latina Media
By Julieta Barrera Buenos Aires, Sep 10 (EFE).- “Let man know that man can,” Argentina’s Alfredo Barragan said after crossing the Atlantic Ocean from Spain’ Canary Islands to Venezuela in a rudderless raft built out of logs 37 years ago, his most famous feat…
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TIL Italian artist Salvatore Garau created and put up for auction in 2021 an invisible sculpture called "Io sono", which means "I am". The sculpture was purchased by a private collector for 15,000 euros.
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Submitted May 23, 2023 at 06:26PM by volossaveroniki
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Salvatore Garau
Italian artist
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TIL the US has the most volcanoes of any country, with 162 volcanos, 40 of which have been active since 1960, BUT 55 of Indonesia's 120 volcanos have been active since 1960.
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Submitted May 23, 2023 at 05:46PM by SecretTimeTrash
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Smithsonian Institution | Global Volcanism Program
Global Volcanism Program | Countries with Holocene Volcanoes
List of volcanoes by Country.
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TIL That there is a tiny island called “Just Room Enough Island” in the Thousand Islands region of the St. Lawrence What makes it unique is that the island is so small that it only has enough space for a single house and a tree.
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Submitted May 23, 2023 at 08:41PM by DepressedNYC-5667
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Just Room Enough Island
island in Jefferson County, New York, United States of America
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