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TIL contrary to popular belief, Chanel No. 5 wasn’t Marilyn Monroe’s favourite perfume. Monroe also had a secret adoration for "Floris Rose Geranium" perfume, which was delivered in bulk to her at the Beverly Hills Hotel under a cloak and dagger alias during the filming of "Some Like It Hot".
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Submitted July 30, 2023 at 05:39AM by waitingforthesun92
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TIL the biggest bank robbery in history was Saddam Hussein's son just walking inside the Central Bank of Iraq the night before US invasion, with a note handwritten by his father, loaded almost $1 billion into three tractor-trailers in span of two hours and left. $350 million of that was never found.
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Submitted July 30, 2023 at 03:18PM by ZoningInTheTrade
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TIL about Preserved Fish, who was a Famous New York Merchant in the 1800's. He's also Featured in Terry Pratchett's "Real People".
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Submitted July 30, 2023 at 01:50PM by filwi
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TIL Bungie recalled 200,000 copies of their 1998 strategy game "Myth 2: Soulblighter" as it was being shipped to retailers after a major bug was found in the uninstaller program that could cause most of a computers hard drive to be erased along with the game.
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Submitted July 30, 2023 at 04:15PM by Bigred2989-
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TIL a referendum on annexation by the United States was held in the Dominican Republic on 19 February 1870. The proposal was approved by 99.93% of voters, although turnout was just 30%. However, the United States Senate rejected the annexation on 30 June 1870 with a 28–28 vote.
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Submitted July 30, 2023 at 07:43PM by crispy_attic
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TIL that half of the top ten most violent cities, in all of America, are in fact small towns.
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Submitted July 30, 2023 at 10:31PM by ClarenceJBoddicker
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TIL that during WWII, the British diverted so much Indian textile production that civilians raided graveyards for clothes. Some people couldn’t work because they didn’t have clothes; others locked themselves in a room until it was their turn to wear the one piece that they shared with others.
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Submitted July 30, 2023 at 09:16PM by ProbablySomeBoomer
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TIL Oreos are an imitation of the Hydrox chocolate cream-centered cookie introduced in 1908, but they outstripped Hydrox in popularity so much that many think Hydrox is an imitation of Oreo
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Submitted July 31, 2023 at 12:11AM by ChinoWreckingMachino
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TIL: There was a Stanford study that took low income stressed/anxious children and exposed them to distressing images such as car crashes and then pleasant images to determine that they have stronger fear signals than typical kids which leads to more impulsive and less controlled actions.
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Submitted July 30, 2023 at 11:45PM by Flares117
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TIL The Man versus Horse Marathon, which has been running yearly since 1980, has only been won by a human three times, in 2004, 2007 and 2022. In all other years, a horse won.
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Submitted July 31, 2023 at 01:11AM by haddock420
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TIL In 2022, 68 year-old Maya Murmu was collecting water in India when an elephant stamped on her. She was rushed to the hospital, but died from her injuries. When family members gathered for her funeral, a herd of elephants appeared, and one of them lifted Murmu’s body and threw it in the air.
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Submitted July 31, 2023 at 03:20AM by Majorpain2006
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TIL "The Bladerunner" is a medical crime story that has absolutely nothing to do with the movie Blade Runner. The movie is based on a novel called "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?" The producers just liked the name "Blade Runner" and went with it.
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Submitted July 31, 2023 at 09:56AM by ColeBelthazorTurner
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