TIL that Saturn's rings are only 100 million years old, making them younger than the dinosaurs or the Appalachian Mountains.
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Quanta Magazine
Are Saturn’s Rings Really as Young as the Dinosaurs?
A surprisingly youthful estimate of the age of the rings has stirred a backlash.
TIL Uwe Boll, famous director of hit movies such as House of the Dead and Alone in the Dark, now owns and operates multiple restaurants and has been somewhat successful at it since 2015.
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Submitted September 06, 2023 at 03:11PM by LonigroC
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Uwe Boll
German filmmaker
TIL John Phillips, the guitarist for Mamas& the Papas had an over 10 year long sexual relationship with his daughter that started when she was 19.
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Submitted September 06, 2023 at 05:57PM by The_Longest_Wave
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the Guardian
Daughter of the Mamas and the Papas' John Phillips reveals incestuous affair
News: Mackenzie Phillips writes in her new book that a sexual relationship with her father began when she was 19 and continued for several years
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TIL Four of the 9/11 hijackers passports survived the attack. Two were recovered from the wreckage of flight 93, one was recovered in luggage that had missed a connecting flight, and the fourth was recovered on the floor outside the WTC prior to the towers' collapse.
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Submitted September 06, 2023 at 06:59PM by ZealousidealLuck6303
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PENTTBOM
FBI probe into the 9/11 attacks
TIL Challenger 2 tanks require two sets of tools, as the hull is built using imperial measurements and the turret is built to metric measurements.
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Submitted September 06, 2023 at 08:17PM by Cakalusa
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Challenger 2
British main battle tank
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TIL Kia's Privacy Policy Covers the Collection of "Sex Life" Information
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Submitted September 06, 2023 at 06:57PM by Sir_Sir_ExcuseMe_Sir
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Kia
Privacy Policy | Kia
Kia's current privacy policy information on collection, use and disclosure of personal identifiable information online and offline.
TIL that the .io domain was originally meant for the British Indian Ocean Territory but startups decided to use it because it was short.
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Submitted September 06, 2023 at 09:28PM by UltimateGamingTechie
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.io
Internet country-code top level domain for the British Indian Ocean Territory
TIL there is a 4th Jonas brother and he is studying astrophysics at Columbia University
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Submitted September 06, 2023 at 09:28PM by akchahal
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Frankie Jonas
American actor
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TIL third-degree burns are not the worst burns; the scale goes up to 6
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Submitted September 06, 2023 at 09:57PM by grasshopper_jo
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NCBI Bookshelf
Burn Classification
A burn takes place when the skin comes into contact with a heat source.[1] Burns can occur from many different sources. The most common sources that cause burns are fire/flame, scalds, hot objects, electrical, and chemical agents, respectively.[2] Injuries…
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TIL of John Rabe, a Nazi who lived in China. He safeguarded 300,000 Chinese civilians from the Japanese during the “Rape of Nanking” and is regarded a hero in the city with numerous monuments dedicated to him.
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TIL that in 1994, Lennox Lewis was paid $4 million by Don King, to step aside as the mandatory challenger to Mike Tyson, and allow Tyson to fight Bruce Seldon instead.
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Submitted September 06, 2023 at 10:00PM by IntoTheMistsWeGo
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Lennox Lewis
Lennox Claudius Lewis CM CBE (born 2 September 1965) is a boxing commentator and former professional boxer who competed from 1989 to 2003. He is a three-time world heavyweight champion, a two-time lineal champion, and the last heavyweight to hold the undisputed…
TIL despite numerous rumors and conspiracy theories, historical records and credible sources firmly state that Adolf Hitler did not have any known children. This has been corroborated by various historians and scholars who have extensively researched Hitler's personal life and lineage.
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Submitted September 07, 2023 at 12:48AM by bonniethegamer223
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www.findingdulcinea.com
Did Adolf Hitler Have Children? Rumor or Uncovered Truth?
Uncover the truth behind the rumors! Did Adolf Hitler truly have children? Explore the hidden secrets and shocking revelations surrounding his alleged offspring.
TIL before World War II, not many married Western men wore wedding rings. During the war though, married men who were serving in the military started to wear them to remind themselves of their wives and families back home, and it became much more common.
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Submitted September 07, 2023 at 01:12AM by Forward-Answer-4407
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BBC News
Wedding rings: Have men always worn them?
A generation or two ago, a British prince choosing not to wear a wedding ring would have barely drawn comment. But the headlines that followed that decision by Prince William show that rings for husbands are now the norm.
TIL Guantanamo bay military base is leased from Cuba for $4085/month, except Cuba refuses to cash the checks. The only time a check was cashed was an accident, as they consider it stolen land.
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Submitted September 07, 2023 at 03:02AM by UltimateOreo
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Guantánamo Bay
bay located in Guantánamo Province
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TIL Hitler's mistress, Eva Braun, showed no interest in politics, except in one notable episode. Learning that women's cosmetics and luxuries were to be banned owing to Germany's total war, she came to Hitler in 'high indignation,' leading to a halt in production without an outright ban.
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Submitted September 07, 2023 at 02:52AM by Obvious_Swimming3227
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Eva Braun
longtime companion and later wife of Adolf Hitler
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TIL that until 1987 many doctors believed infants did not feel pain. Medical procedures, even heart surgeries were performed without anesthesia.
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Submitted September 07, 2023 at 05:53AM by MTGsMoldyTaint
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Pain in babies
distress in human infants as a response to damaging stimuli
TIL Bestiality is still legal in Hawaii, New Mexico, West Virginia, and Wyoming
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Submitted September 07, 2023 at 02:02AM by coachlife
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LII / Legal Information Institute
bestiality
TIL of Emperor Liu Ziye, who granted his sister a harem of 30 young men after she complained about the emperor getting thousands of concubines but she could only have one husband
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Submitted September 07, 2023 at 08:14AM by _Ping_-
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Liu Ziye
Former Deposed Emperor of Liu Song or Emperor Qianfei ((劉)宋前廢帝) (25 February 449 – 1 January 466), personal name Liu Ziye (劉子業), childhood name Fashi (法師), was an emperor of the Chinese Liu Song dynasty. His brief reign as a teenager was known for his violent…
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TIL that Denmark has a 7-point grading system in schools where the grades are 12, 10, 7, 4, 02, 00 and -3
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Submitted September 07, 2023 at 09:59AM by RuStorm
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Academic grading in Denmark
overview of academic grading in Denmark
TIL Matthew Hopkins was Witch Finder General of England who hanged more "witches" than any other witch hunter.
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Submitted September 07, 2023 at 08:57AM by ConfectionDry7881
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Matthew Hopkins
English witch hunter (1620–1647)
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TIL Kim Jong Il's birth name was Yuri Irsenovich Kim
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Submitted September 07, 2023 at 04:56PM by theks
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Kim Jong Il
Supreme Leader of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (1994—2011)