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TIL after centuries of use in America there was an international effort to ban sign language. Educators from Europe wanted to force the deaf to try to focus on oral communication instead. Linguists rejected American Sign Language as a language until William Stokoe proved it had grammar in the 1960s.
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Submitted August 02, 2023 at 10:23AM by sed_non_extra
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TIL: The Spotify API was used to analyze the BPM and energy rating of over 900 songs to determine which songs negatively affected driving. "Don't Get Me Wrong" was the most dangerous song with a risk score of 1836, while "Sweet Caroline" was the safest with a risk score of 63.
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Submitted August 02, 2023 at 01:40PM by Flares117
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TIL New Mexico is the first (and so far only) US state to have an official "state aroma", the scent of roasting green chiles.
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Submitted August 02, 2023 at 12:01PM by Torley_
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TIL Cal Polytechnic placed a commemorative plaque at the bathroom where “Weird Al” Yankovic recorded his breakthrough song “My Bologna” in 1979. It is humorously known as “Studio 229.”
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Submitted August 02, 2023 at 02:24PM by Nostalgic-Soul-76
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TIL: Congress doesn't actually pass a law against child pornography until 1996.
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Submitted August 02, 2023 at 04:10PM by SilentWalrus92
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TIL that in 1945, as a high school sophomore, Buffett and a friend spent $25 to purchase a used pinball machine, which they placed in the local barber shop. Within months, they owned several machines in different barber shops across Omaha & sold the business to a war veteran for a tidy sum of $1200
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Submitted August 02, 2023 at 03:40PM by GetEdgeful
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TIL that instead of using pesticides, the Mexican state of Coloma releases billions of sterile fruit flies who then outcompete the fertile ones for mates.
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Submitted August 02, 2023 at 07:31PM by filwi
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TIL the meerkat is the world's most murderous mammal with 20% of all meerkats being violently killed by another meerkat, most commonly their mother, sister, or aunt
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Submitted August 02, 2023 at 07:49PM by cwood1973
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TIL at least one of the victims of the Vesuvius Eruption in 79 C.E was found with a vitrified brain. In other words their brain was turned to glass due to the extreme heat.
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Submitted August 02, 2023 at 09:08PM by Dragonbutt45
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TIL in 1940 a Jewish couple fled Paris just before the Nazis seized the city on a pair of homemade bicycles. Among the few possessions they carried with them was the manunoscript they created for the a book called Curious George.
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Submitted August 02, 2023 at 09:54PM by latchkey_adult
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TIL The Goonies director Richard Donner was eager to return home to Hawaii after a hectic shoot with a cast of kids. He said "I love ’em to pieces, but I can’t stand it anymore!’ After shooting wrapped Steven Spielberg put the whole cast on a plane to Hawaii to surprise Donner before he got home.
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Submitted August 03, 2023 at 01:46AM by f_GOD
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TIL when Blink 182 recorded Take Off Your Pants and Jacket, their manager said there was no 'good-time summer anthem', Tom and Mark responded 'You want a fucking single? I'll write you the cheesiest catchiest throwaway fucking summertime single youve ever heard!" and wrote The Rock Show in 10 mins
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Submitted August 03, 2023 at 02:23AM by donterdoo
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TIL that the "Leatherman" folding tool is named not because it was for working leather, or designed by a leatherworker, but rather takes its name from its founder's real name; Tim Leatherman.
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Submitted August 03, 2023 at 01:06AM by temporalwanderer
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TIL: Actor, and former WWE superstar Dave Bautista would hid inhalers under wrestling rings, to deal with his asthma, during matches.
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Submitted August 03, 2023 at 02:48AM by sova_77
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TIL there is a town in Texas USA named "Canadian" and its citizens are called "Canadians"
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Submitted August 03, 2023 at 05:10AM by tucci007
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TIL Shi Pei Pu was a Chinese opera singer from Beijing. He became a spy who obtained secrets from Bernard Boursicot, an employee in the French embassy, during a 20-year-long sexual affair in which the performer convinced the man that he was a woman.
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Submitted August 03, 2023 at 02:13PM by TobyWonCanoeBee
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TIL explorer Captain James Cook was fatally stabbed by a chieftain with a British-made dagger. Cook and his crew had earlier traded the dagger to the local Hawaiians.
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Submitted August 03, 2023 at 02:33PM by saalsa_shark
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