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TIL Inge Lehmann, who discovered that the centre of the Earth is solid, is also one of the longest lived scientists in history, living to 104 years of age and wrote her last scientific article at 99
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Submitted August 21, 2023 at 02:54AM by einstein_bern
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TIL that in 1987, Kenneth Parks drove 20 kilometres in his sleep before attacking and killing his mother-in-law and injuring his father-in-law. He woke up on the way home and turned himself in. He was later found not guilty.
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Submitted August 21, 2023 at 06:50AM by Gobias001
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TIL Taco Bell is named after its founder, Glen Bell. He served tacos at his first restaurant, Bell’s hamburgers
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Submitted August 21, 2023 at 06:49AM by MrJigglyBrown
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TIL M. Night Shyamalan was raised Hindu, but attended a private Roman Catholic grammar school. A teacher once became upset because he "got the best grade in religion class [even though he] wasn't Catholic".
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Submitted August 21, 2023 at 08:06AM by LadyWarrior73
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TIL Samsung created a butt shaped robot that sits on their phones to test their durability. The robot exerts 220 pounds of pressure on their phones during testing. The robot even wears jeans.
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Submitted August 21, 2023 at 10:13AM by TheQuietKid22
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TIL a Japanese euphemism for getting your period is 'ペリー来航 - the arrival of Matthew Perry'
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Submitted August 21, 2023 at 03:40PM by OrigamiToad
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TIL that when director James Gunn cast David Dastmalchian as supervillain Polka-Dot Man for "The Suicide Squad", he had no idea that the actor has vitiligo. The skin disease gives Dastmalchian polka dots on his skin; as a child, he was mocked by others as "polka dots" and "Dalmatian".
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Submitted August 21, 2023 at 03:07PM by TMWNN
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TIL that in 2009, a 2 year old child was sentenced to life in prison in North Korea, for the crime of having parents who smuggled a bible in to the country.
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Submitted August 21, 2023 at 03:55PM by Amirax
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TIL that when actor Rod Cameron divorced in 1960, he soon remarried ... to his ex-wife's mother.
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Submitted August 21, 2023 at 03:55PM by TMWNN
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TIL that Super Bowl shirts made for the losing team get donated to a nonprofit aid group, which then donates the shirts to impoverished nations
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Submitted August 21, 2023 at 06:27PM by Brix001
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TIL the "essential" in essential oils means derived from the essence of the mineral, not that it is essential for our health.
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Submitted August 21, 2023 at 07:30PM by TechyGuyInIL
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TIL that Hamilton, the capital of Bermuda, is the city with the highest cost of living in the world. The cost of living is 47.42% higher than New York City.
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Submitted August 21, 2023 at 10:56PM by dorgoth12
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TIL that the founder of Chili's restaurant chain, Larry Levine, was inspired to open a restaurant that served chili and burgers and had the friendly environment of the chili cookoffs his Father in-law hosted. His FIL was famed racing driver and performance car constructor, Carroll Shelby.
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Submitted August 21, 2023 at 11:19PM by Cabo_Refugee
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TIL that the horror cliché of zombies eating brains dates back to the 1985 horror-comedy film “Return of the Living Dead”, in which the zombies didn’t eat brains out of hunger, but instead because it eased the "pain" of being a zombie.
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Submitted August 21, 2023 at 11:23PM by waitingforthesun92
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