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TIL that the inspiration behind Professor Snape in Harry Potter was a chemistry teacher John Nettleship. Nettleship at first was upset about this attribution, but later came to embrace it, even writing a book.
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Submitted June 03, 2023 at 10:46AM by VengefulMight
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TIL The bloodiest day in U.S. Military History was June 6, 1944 with 2,500 deaths. (D-day). The bloodiest day for U.S. born soldiers was Sept. 17, 1862 with 3,675 deaths. (Antietam)
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Submitted June 03, 2023 at 06:06AM by triviafrenzy
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TIL in 1990 an 8 year old girl with cerebral palsy named Jennifer Keelan left her wheelchair and crawled up the steps of the U.S. Capitol Building to urge Congress to pass the Americans with Disabilities Act which had been stalled in committee. It was signed into law a few months later.
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Submitted June 03, 2023 at 05:45PM by GoodSamaritan_
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TIL that six doctors devised an experiment where they each swallow a Lego head as a means to determine the typical transit time of a commonly swallowed object. They then presented their findings with a 'Found and Retrieved Time' aka 'FART' score. The FART score averaged 1.71 days
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Submitted June 03, 2023 at 06:41PM by Unadorned_Larva
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TIL People who work with cockroaches often develop an allergic reaction to the insects and at the same time develop an allergic reaction to pre-ground coffee from the insects which also get ground with the beans at the factory.
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Submitted June 03, 2023 at 07:58PM by rexmons
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TIL Ernest Hemingway had a transgender daughter. Gloria Hemingway (born Gregory Hancock Hemingway) was an American physician and writer. Although she lived most of her life publicly as a man, she struggled with her gender identity from a young age, and in her sixties underwent surgery to transition
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Submitted June 03, 2023 at 08:35PM by Khaleeasi24
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TIL that an American POW in World War 2 was questioned about US atomic bombs after the bombing of Hiroshima. He told them he didn't know anything about that, but when they threatened to kill them, he "revealed" they had hundreds and that Tokyo and Kyoto were next.
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Submitted June 03, 2023 at 07:54PM by IanMazgelis
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TIL that Steve Jobs is buried in an unmarked grave
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Submitted June 03, 2023 at 10:26PM by romansapprentice
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TIL that in 1888, a woman named Bertha Benz became the first person to drive an automobile over a long distance when she took her husband's experimental three-wheeled Benz Patent-Motorwagen on a 65-mile journey from Mannheim to Pforzheim in Germany.
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Submitted June 03, 2023 at 10:05PM by CatPotatey
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TIL Sigurd the Mighty, the Second Earl of Orkney who reigned between 875–892, was killed by by an infected wound after he strapped the decapitated head of Máel Brigte the Bucktoothed to his horse. The bouncing head and jaw chewed into Sigurd's leg on his victorious ride home from their fight.
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Submitted June 04, 2023 at 12:20AM by CrashLaForge
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TIL Orson Welles was not drunk during the infamous Paul Masson shoot, he was under the effects of a sleeping pill. After napping for a few hours, Welles was able to complete the commercial within an hour, and the director said he was a delight to work with.
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Submitted June 04, 2023 at 01:23AM by estpenis
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TIL that the legs of the 630 foot 192 m) Gateway Arch in St. Louis, MO had to be built with a 1/64” (0.4 mm) tolerance so that they would meet at the top. Several filmmakers documented the entire construction in hope that the legs wouldn’t meet.
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Submitted June 04, 2023 at 01:41AM by UralIveGotTonight
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TIL after English King James II converted to Catholicism he was forced into exile in 1688 and his descendants were barred from royal succession. Today there is an art historian in Germany who would be King of England (instead of King Charles III) if James had stayed in the Church of England.
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Submitted June 04, 2023 at 01:51AM by triviafrenzy
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TIL that Studebaker made the world's "largest living advertisement" in 1938 by planting 8k pine trees to spell "STUDEBAKER" if viewed from the sky. Even though Studebaker has been gone for over 50 years, their pine tree logo lives on and is in the U.S. National Register of Historic Places.
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Submitted June 04, 2023 at 05:08AM by RollingNightSky
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TIL that there's a conspiracy theory that the US invaded Iraq due to Iraq having a stargate and being in contact with aliens
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Submitted June 04, 2023 at 06:09AM by Footlongpenetrator
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TIL Galyn Susman was the individual who saved ‘TOY STORY 2’ by having a copy of the film at home after someone accidentally ran a command that deleted 90% of the film from Pixar’s files.
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Submitted June 04, 2023 at 05:59AM by rustyyryan
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TIL:In 1916, a proposed Amendment to the US Constitution suggested subjecting all acts of war to a nationwide vote. Those who voted in favor would be required to enlist as volunteers in the US Army.
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Submitted June 04, 2023 at 08:53AM by Ok_Afternoon5622
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TIL Marc-Antoine Fardin published a paper in which he cited photographs of cats in jars, baskets and salad bowls and concluded that cats have the properties of both solid and liquid objects. For this work, Fardon was awarded the Ig Nobel Prize in Physics in 2017.
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Submitted June 04, 2023 at 01:51PM by volossaveroniki
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TIL of Cockaigne, an imaginary land of plenty in medieval myth, where physical comforts and pleasures are always immediately at hand. In Cockaigne, abbots are beaten by their monks, nuns are flipped over to show their bottoms, and the skies rain cheese.
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Submitted June 04, 2023 at 10:56AM by Jimboats
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TIL about Salieri syndrome where people with it are often mildly talented people in larger organizations in a position to help you — but instead they undermine your success.
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Submitted June 04, 2023 at 07:43AM by GamerY7
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