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TIL about the 2010 book "Barbie: I Can Be A Computer Engineer" and that Mattell apologized for the book after extensive online criticism because Barbie had her male friends code the game she was designing and that her male friends fixed Skipper's computer that Barbie had infected with a virus
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Submitted August 17, 2023 at 09:46PM by Sandstorm400
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TIL Some shoe companies will sell shoes with “fuzzy bottoms/soles” (think inexpensive shoes sold at places like Walmart, Target, etc) because they can legally classify them as “slippers” changing import tariff from 37.5% to just 3% despite them clearly being sneakers
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Submitted August 17, 2023 at 10:48PM by FantasyMaster85
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TIL that CBS used to run so many rural-themed TV shows that they were mocked as the “Country Broadcasting System.” To attract a more lucrative audience, after the 1970-71 season they enacted the “rural purge,” canceling many popular rural-themed series and long-running variety shows.
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Submitted August 17, 2023 at 11:30PM by SucculentBritishMeal
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TIL The idea for what would become the George Foreman grill, was originally offered to Hulk Hogan. He declined. Foreman has made over $500 million from this product alone
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Submitted August 18, 2023 at 03:34AM by mikeyv683
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TIL the lunar surface contains 1.1 million metric tons of helium-3. Just 25 tons would meet all of the US energy needs for a year. Helium-3 fusion produces charged particles which are not radioactive. Helium-3 is also renewable, being constantly deposed by solar winds on the surface of the Moon.
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Submitted August 18, 2023 at 01:51AM by dustofoblivion123
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TIL the average American now consumes roughly the same amount of sugar in a day that the average Palaeolithic human consumed in a year (~20 teaspoons)
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Submitted August 18, 2023 at 05:07AM by pstbo
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TIL Celine Dion met her husband when she was 12 and he was… 38
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Submitted August 18, 2023 at 08:31AM by Axe_wound_crotch
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TIL: The longest confirmed lightning bolt occurred in 2022 and traveled 477 miles across 3 states.
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Submitted August 18, 2023 at 05:44AM by Arthur_Wellesley1815
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TIL that the popular Snickers bar was named after a beloved horse owned by the candy company's owners, Frank and Ethel Mars
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Submitted August 18, 2023 at 02:40PM by TroyMcClureFishCo
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TIL that an elderly Salvador Dali became severely burned as his excessive use of the assistance button next to his bed caused it to short-circuit and set the bed aflame.
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Submitted August 18, 2023 at 02:58PM by JerkyOnassis
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TIL that the Simpsons is not the longest running cartoon of all time. That a Looney Tunes spin-off called “The Bugs Bunny Show” currently beats the Simpsons by 6 years. This show ran for 40 years from 1960-2000. While The Simpsons is currently running at 34 years. (1989-present)
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Submitted August 18, 2023 at 04:35PM by Advanced_Bad4443
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TIL that squirting is MOSTLY just urine. A 2015 study found that all their participants showed noticeable bladder filling before squirting through ultrasonographic bladder monitoring, and then demonstrated that their bladders were emptied post-squirting.
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Submitted August 18, 2023 at 06:05PM by -spicerack
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TIL Malcolm Brenner claims to have had sex with a female dolphin named Dolly in the 1970s, and believes it was consensual.
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Submitted August 18, 2023 at 05:59PM by WARROVOTS
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TIL the highest temperature ever reached is 4 trillion Celsius degrees. Scientists used a giant atom smasher to reach it for a few milliseconds. It was so hot that even protons and neutrons melted. They believe a similar temperature was reached during the milliseconds that followed the Big Bang.
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Submitted August 18, 2023 at 06:22PM by dustofoblivion123
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TIL Hiram Bingham wasn’t the first to rediscover Machu Picchu. Peruvian farmer and explorer Agustín Lizárraga had arrived 9 yrs earlier, leaving an innoscription "A. Lizárraga 1902." Sadly, he died one year after Bingham’s arrival, and his innoscription was erased by Bingham for "preservation reasons."
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Submitted August 18, 2023 at 07:15PM by explowaker
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TIL that at least 4 billion people across the globe wear glasses, and 75% of adults worldwide rely on some sight correction product.
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Submitted August 18, 2023 at 07:58PM by Moto_Rouge
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TIL that a 2017 McDonald's commercial was pulled after being slammed by numerous complaints as exploitative. The commercial featured a boy who is talking with his mom and trying to find something in common with his late father. At the end he finally finds something - they both liked the Filet-O-Fish
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Submitted August 18, 2023 at 08:06PM by Sandstorm400
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