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TIL Sesame Street was originally created for Black and Brown inner-city children as a means to improve their education system
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Submitted August 25, 2023 at 08:16PM by Newez
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TIL fairy dust was added to Peter Pan so that children wouldn't hurt themselves trying to fly when they got home from seeing the play.
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Submitted August 25, 2023 at 10:49PM by FLEXXMAN33
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TIL that while Bram Stoker’s Dracula character was loosely based on Vlad Tepes the Impaler, his appearance and personality were drawn from the actor Henry Irving, an imposing egoist with a strong aquiline nose, whom Stoker managed while writing the book.
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Submitted August 25, 2023 at 11:32PM by Radient-Rabbit
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TIL tortillas are a prohibited item at Sun Devil Stadium (Arizona State University). Possession of tortillas within the stadium can be a cause for removal without a refund.
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Submitted August 26, 2023 at 04:41AM by NoSalmonSaidit4Times
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TIL President Nixon had a personal valet, Manolo Sanchez, whom he was so close and depended on the two developed a constructed language "sometimes using words that only the two of them understood".
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Submitted August 26, 2023 at 03:53AM by gonejahman
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TIL In 2010, Julien Barreaux was so infuriated about losing a Knife fight in the game Counter Strike, that he spent seven months tracking down his opponent, found him and stabbed him in the chest. He was sentenced to 2 years in jail and ordered to take anger management classes.
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Submitted August 26, 2023 at 04:07AM by Majorpain2006
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TIL a sheep farmer in France became a national hero, wrote a best seller book and ran for president after he took his tractor and drove it through a mcdonalds as a protest because he hated what the fast food restaurant was doing to farmers.
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Submitted August 26, 2023 at 04:14AM by Berisha11
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TIL that there is such a thing as North Korean Science Fiction, where the Supreme Leader is always right and Evil Americans wander "the depraved streets of New York, where, at night, jazz made people dizzy as if it had stolen their souls."
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Submitted August 26, 2023 at 08:05AM by filwi
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TIL Otou Katayama stopped speaking to his wife for 20 years because he was jealous of the attention she gave their children, he only communicated with her via grunts and noises.
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Submitted August 26, 2023 at 05:22AM by BigfootDynamite
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TIL the smoot is a unit of measure named for Oliver R. Smoot, an MIT student who as a fraternity pledge was forced to measure the Harvard Bridge using himself as a ruler. A smoot is equal to five feet, seven inches.
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Submitted August 26, 2023 at 05:09PM by IVLeague8
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TIL Shakespeare invented the name « Jessica »
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Submitted August 26, 2023 at 06:42PM by Starza
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TIL Bob Barker was an enrolled member of the Sioux Tribe and grew up on a reservation in South Dakota
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Submitted August 26, 2023 at 08:17PM by ma582
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TIL Hawaii is considered the bird extinction capital of the world - Since humans arrived, 95 of 142 bird species found nowhere else in the world have become extinct in Hawaii
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Submitted August 26, 2023 at 08:57PM by iamayeshaerotica
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TIL that dog allergies and fear of dogs are not valid reasons for U.S. businesses which serve the public, to refuse service to people using service animals. If someone in the business is allergic to dogs, both the person with the dog allergy and the person with the service dog should be accommodated
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Submitted August 26, 2023 at 07:34PM by Sandstorm400
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TIL the choir that comes in towards the end of the Red Hot Chili Peppers' "Under the Bridge" was made up of guitarist John Frusciante's mother and her friends from church, none of whom were professional singers.
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Submitted August 27, 2023 at 12:59AM by Skeleton_Pilots
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