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TIL The Navy contacted the Village People to use "In the Navy" in an advertising campaign for television and radio. They gave the rights to the song for free on the condition that the Navy help them shoot the music video. The Navy provided them with a warship, several aircraft, and plenty of seamen
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Submitted June 02, 2023 at 04:58AM by VecroLP
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TIL that the man who wrote “Take Me Out to the Ball Game” never saw a baseball game until 32 years after he wrote the song.
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Submitted June 02, 2023 at 04:40AM by UralIveGotTonight
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TIL a victim of the SS Atlantic wreck was found to be a woman disguised as a man. A great favorite among her shipmates, one remarked "I didn't know Bill was a woman. He took his grog as regular as any of us, & was always begging or stealing tobacco. He was a good fellow, & I'm sorry he was a woman."
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Submitted June 02, 2023 at 03:00PM by Shark-Farts
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TIL of a former taxi driver turned billionaire who purchased a $170 million painting with his American Express card, earning enough reward points for a lifetime of first-class travel for his family.
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Submitted June 02, 2023 at 10:09AM by masteryoda
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TIL that Native Americans weren't legally considered U.S. citizens until 1924 when President Calvin Coolidge signed the Indian Citizenship Act into law. The 14th Amendment defined a citizen as anyone born in the United States, but the courts said it didn't apply to Native peoples.
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Submitted June 02, 2023 at 04:23PM by PikesPique
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TIL: At 13, Waris Dirie fled her family in the Somali desert to escape an arranged marriage to a 60-year-old man. She made it to London and worked at Mcdonald's when she agreed to model for a photographer. She became a supermodel, appeared in a Bond movie & became a world-famous voice against FGM.
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Submitted June 02, 2023 at 06:09PM by theotherbogart
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TIL that Évariste Galois, a math prodigy who revolutionized group theory in his teens and got a whole mathematical field named after himself, died of the wounds suffered from a duel over a woman. He was only 20.
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Submitted June 02, 2023 at 04:08PM by dragonoid296
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TIL the only wedding ceremony of a president serving in the White House was Grover Cleveland in 1886. At 49, he married a 21-year-old woman he had previously been the legal guardian of, and John Philip Sousa provided the music.
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Submitted June 02, 2023 at 09:24PM by CFSparta92
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Today I learned that beekeeping suits are white because bees have seemingly evolved an aggressive defensive response towards dark figures approaching their nest which white suits helps to counteract
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Submitted June 02, 2023 at 10:36PM by millennial-snowflake
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TIL that Benjamin Franklin did not suggest a Turkey as the national bird of the US. He instead wrote a letter criticizing the use of a Bald Eagle as the icon of a fraternal society, claiming the bird was "lazy," "a rank coward," "of bad moral character," and that a Turkey was much more respectable.
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Submitted June 02, 2023 at 08:01PM by Cambrian_Implosion
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TIL that "Contempt of Congress" was originally defined as "bribery of a U.S. Senator or U.S. Representative." Now, it is defined as obstructing the work of the U.S. Congress.
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Submitted June 03, 2023 at 01:42AM by misc412
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TIL the first film about the Titanic starred an actor who survived the sinking. Dorothy Gibson was playing bridge when the ship hit the iceberg and she escaped on the first lifeboat. She later starred in "Saved from the Titanic", in which she wore the same clothes that she wore on the Titanic.
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Submitted June 02, 2023 at 11:56PM by SingLikeTinaTurner
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TIL the image of a ninja dressed all in black comes from the convention of depicting ninjas as wearing the costume of stagehands in Japanese kabuki theater
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Submitted June 03, 2023 at 04:33AM by happy_bluebird
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TIL the famous French actor Jean Reno was born to Spanish parents in Casablanca, Morocco. His given name is Juan Moreno, French was his third language, and he didn't move to France until age 17.
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Submitted June 03, 2023 at 09:20AM by centaurquestions
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TIL microwaving liquids creates an unusual heat convection effect, which consistently makes the top of the liquid much hotter than the bottom
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Submitted June 03, 2023 at 07:16AM by TypicalDumbRedditGuy
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TIL prior to 2011, if a member of the British Royal Family married a Roman Catholic they were excluded from the Line of Succession.
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Submitted June 03, 2023 at 06:55AM by triviafrenzy
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