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)
TIL that platinum was not known in Europe before the (re)discovery of the Americas. The first European reference to platinum appears in 1557 as a denoscription of an unknown noble metal found between Darién and Mexico, "which no fire nor any Spanish artifice has yet been able to liquefy"
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Submitted September 07, 2023 at 05:03PM by SteO153
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Platinum
Platinum is a chemical element with the symbol Pt and atomic number 78. It is a dense, malleable, ductile, highly unreactive, precious, silverish-white transition metal. Its name originates from Spanish platina, a diminutive of plata "silver".
TIL the comedian Stephen Chow had one of the single most dominant years in box office history in 1992, when he starred in every one of the top five grossing films of the Hong Kong box office: Justice, My Foot; All’s Well Ends Well; Royal Tramp; King of Beggars; and Royal Tramp II
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Submitted September 07, 2023 at 01:50PM by shor
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MUBI
Contemporary Chinese Cinema: "The New King of Comedy" and "Hidden Man"
After failing to receive a North American theatrical release, new films from Stephen Chow and Jiang Wen are now available on home video.
TIL In 2001, less than 0.1% of Hawaii’s population are native speakers of Hawaiian, making it a critically endangered language
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Submitted September 07, 2023 at 06:43PM by colapepsikinnie
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Hawaiian language
Polynesian language
TIL in the 18 months leading up to the 9/11 attacks, CIA had 2 of the hijackers under surveillance within the US but kept it secret from the FBI
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Submitted September 07, 2023 at 07:34PM by happytree23
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ABC News
CIA Didn't Share Info About 9/11 Hijackers
TIL that Waikiki Beach in Hawaii is almost entirely artificial. Sand was brought in from Manhattan Beach, CA via barge to Waikiki as early as the 1920s. Sand imports ceased in the 1970s, with sand from about 2000 feet offshore used to replenish now.
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Submitted September 07, 2023 at 06:52PM by AspireAgain
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Hawaii Magazine
Where's the beach? Seeking the origins of Waikiki sand. - Hawaii Magazine
You ask. We answer.HAWAII Magazine reader Deborah Wheeler of Australia writes:A group in Australia claimed that sand from Stockton Beach in Newcastle,
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TIL as of 2020, 78.7% of Singapore residents live in public housing, down from a high of 88.0% in 2000
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Submitted September 07, 2023 at 09:06PM by Double-decker_trams
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Public housing in Singapore
Housing programmes of the Singapore government
TIL: About the undersea volcano, Marsili - one of the Mediterranean's most dangerous volcanos. As of 2010, warnings say it could erupt at any time sending up to a 30m (100 ft) tsunami reaching Italy's Sicilian and Calabrian coasts in 10-20 minutes.
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Submitted September 07, 2023 at 08:21PM by Black_Magic_M-66
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Bbc
The enigma of Europe's submerged behemoth
Off the southern coast of Italy, the largest active volcano in Europe lies hidden beneath the waves. Now scientists are mapping what would happen if it erupted.
TIL that the current population of Ireland (approx 7m) is still below the population recorded before in the Great Hunger of the 1840s (approx 8.5m).
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Submitted September 08, 2023 at 12:39AM by make_monies
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Submitted September 08, 2023 at 12:39AM by make_monies
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www.dfa.ie
Black '47 Ireland's Great Famine and its after-effects - Department of Foreign Affairs
TIL about John McSherry, a MLB umpire who died during an opening day game between the Cincinnati Reds and Montreal Expos
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Submitted September 07, 2023 at 11:31PM by BigDiesel07
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John McSherry
American baseball umpire
TIL that around 109 billion humans have lived and died over the last 192,000 years, according to demographers from the Population Reference Bureau
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Submitted September 08, 2023 at 12:55AM by dakp15
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PRB
How Many People Have Ever Lived on Earth?
The global population milestone of 8 billion people represents nearly 7% of the total number of people who have ever lived on Earth.
TIL of the metaphor of the "missing stair", where a problematic person in a community is discretely worked around and warned about, rather than openly addressed
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Submitted September 08, 2023 at 01:40AM by innergamedude
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Missing stair
metaphor for a person within a social group
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TIL the physical virginity of Jesus' mother was so important in the Middle Ages, paintings depicted Mary getting pregnant through her ear with a beam of light from the Holy Ghost.
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Submitted September 08, 2023 at 03:22AM by sanandrios
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Johnsanidopoulos
The Conception of Christ Through the Ear of the Virgin Mary
In both Eastern and Western art of the Annunciation, we often find that the trajectory of the descent of the Holy Spirit is not to the womb...